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Mohsin Hamid
This self-professed 'misfit' is responsible for The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and calls Lahore, Pakistan home.
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Anchee Min
"If I had stayed in China, I would be dead." The 1994 memoir Red Azalea rocketed Anchee Min to the top of international bestseller lists.
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Nia Dinata
Unafraid to court controversy, Nia's Ca-Bau-Kan or The Courtesan was selected as a candidate for Foreign Film nomination at the Oscars.
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Chigozie Obioma
Anointed "this year's most promising African newcomer," byThe New York Times, his debut spins a mythical tale of four brothers torn apart by a prophecy.
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Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Seno’s works reflect the undying rebel in his heart, tackling political oppression and state-sponsored violence in collections such asJazz, Perfume & the Incident.
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Emily Bitto
Scooping the Stella Prize in 2015 – the first debut novel to ever do so – The Strays was likened to the literary polish of Ian McEwan and A.S. Byatt.
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Raj Kamal Jha
Drawn to "fault lines where worlds intersect," this journalist-writer plumbs Delhi's depths in his editorial at The Indian Express and novel She Will Build Him a City.
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Hyeonseo Lee
Hyeonseo Lee's life story has to be heard to be believed. A North Korea defector, she details the horror and absurdity in her gripping autobiography The Girl with Seven Names.
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Putu Oka Sukanta
An authority in HIV/AIDS and traditional healing, this author of fiction and non-fiction was detained for ten years without trial because of his activities with a leftist arts organisation.
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Sofie Laguna
Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Award for her deeply touching book The Eye of the Sheep.
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Linda Christanty
This author, journalist and Indonesian literary icon scooped the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2013.
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Graeme Simison
Brain behind runaway hit The Rosie Project, which has been optioned by Sony for a feature film adaptation.
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Okky Madasari
Author of Maryam, 86, Pasung Jiwa and more, and Founder of the ASEAN Literary Festival.
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Galuh Wandita
Championing the rights of East Timor took her to the Timor-Leste truth commission.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh
Cytogenetics scholar and Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History.
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Nam Le
His collection The Boat is now a stunning interactive graphic novel courtesy of Matt Huynh and SBS Online.
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Eka Kurniawan
Likened to the late great Pramoedya Ananta Toer. (To which he says, "we tend to look at Indonesia differently.")
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Valeria Luiselli
Mexico-born, South Africa-raised experimental writer of Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth.
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Andreas Harsono
This leading human rights advocate and journalist co-founded the Alliance of Independent Journalists.
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Maureen Wheeler
One half of the near-mythic Wheelers, founders of Lonely Planet and philanthropic body Planet Wheeler.
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Tony Wheeler
One half of the near-mythic Wheelers, founders of Lonely Planet and philanthropic body Planet Wheeler.
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