Here are 10 international guests appearing at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF).

You can find the full program for the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival here.

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh. He is the author of 12 novels including the international bestseller Trainspotting and its sequel Porno, both adapted into iconic films by Danny Boyle. His latest novel Dead Men’s Trousers reunites the characters from Trainspotting for the final time. He serves as the Official Ambassador of the Homeless World Cup and currently lives in Miami.

Find out how to see Irvine Welsh at MWF here

Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Mere Wife (a contemporary adaptation of Beowulf), and six other books, including Magonia and Unnatural Creatures (co-edited with Neil Gaiman). Her radical new verse translation of Beowulf will be published in 2019. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson and Nebula Awards, among others.

Find out how to see Maria Dahvana Headley at MWF here

Ronan Farrow

Ronan Farrow is the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist whose reporting on Harvey Weinstein contributed to the #MeToo movement. He has written about human rights and foreign policy for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He is the author of War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.

Find out how to see Ronan Farrow at MWF here

Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book North End Love Songs won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2013. Her novel The Break was a bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of the award-winning Between the World and Me. His recent book We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of essays on the Obama era. He currently writes the Black Panther and Captain America comic books, and is a national correspondent for The Atlantic.

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Mara Wilson

Mara Wilson’s memoir Where Am I Now?: Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame was published in 2016. Her writing has appeared on Elle.com, McSweeney’s, Reductress, Cracked, and Woolly Magazine.

Find out how to see Mara Wilson at MWF here

Ed Husain

Ed Husain is the bestselling author of The House of Islam and The Islamist. He writes and speaks extensively on the geopolitics of the Middle East and international threats from radicalisation and terrorism.

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Ashleigh Young

Ashleigh Young is an essayist, poet, and editor. She is the author of the poetry collection Magnificent Moon and the essay collection Can You Tolerate This?, which won a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize from Yale University in 2017.

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Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first collection of poems The Crown Ain’t Worth Much was released in 2016, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us was released to critical acclaim in November 2017.

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Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction. Gessen is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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You can find the full program for the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival here.