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TRAE TE WIKI NEW ZEALAND
An actor/producer from Nga-ti Ruanui (Taranaki) Trae Te Wiki
was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the Wellington Theatre Awards 2017 and has been part of
a number of shows including The First Time, Last Meals, Anzac Eve,
and Portrait of an Artist Mongrel: The Writing of Rowley Habib.
SHARLENE TEO SINGAPORE
Sharlene Teo won the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writer’s Award for debutnovelPonti. Shehasreceived University of Iowa, Sozopol Fiction and David TK Wong fellowships and a Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. Supported by National Arts Council of Singapore. @treebirds
SHASHI THAROOR INDIA
Indian MP and former UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor is a noted critic, columnist and award- winningauthor. Hehaswritten16 books including The Great Indian Novel, Bookless in Baghdad, Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India and the latest Why I Am a Hindu. Supported by Asia NZ Foundation.
shashitharoor.in @ShashiTharoor
MARCUS THOMAS NEW ZEALAND
Graphic designer, writer and photographer Marcus Thomas is leading caver and the co-author, with Neil Silverwood, of Caves: Exploring New Zealand's Subterranean Wilderness which won Silverwood the 2017 New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year Award.
MITCH TAWHI THOMAS NEW ZEALAND
- Mitch Tawhi Thomas (Ngati
Maniapoto) is a playwright and script writer with works including Hui, Take itorLeaveit,HaveCarWillTravel,and Jangle. His awards include a Chapman Tripp Theatre Award, the Bruce Mason Playwrights Award and an Adam NZ New Play Award.
ALEXANDRA TIDSWELL NEW ZEALAND
Former diplomat Alexandra Tidswell is a partner in Kia Ma-ia Bicultural Communications, where she creates interactive bicultural training software.Lewisville,abouther ancestor Martha Grimm, is her rst novel.
WENDY VELLA NEW ZEALAND
Romance writer Wendy Vella is the best-selling author of 29 historical and contemporary romance books including the Lake Howling, and Sinclair and Raven series. wendyvella.com
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NGUGI WA THIONG’O
KENYA
Kenyan teacher, editor, novelist,
essayist, playwright, children’s writer
and recipient of an honorary doctorate
from The University of Auckland,
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Ngugı wa Thiong’o, is Africa’s premiere
literaryvoiceandanoftmootedNobel Prize contender. His books include Devil on The Cross, Decolonising the Mind Birth of a Dream Weaver and Wrestling with the Devil. Supported by the Michael King Writers’ Centre and The University of Auckland. ngugiwathiongo.com
FRANCIS WADE ENGLAND
Journalist Francis Wade is a Southeast Asian specialist and has reported for TheGuardian,Time,WashingtonPost,The Nation, and New York Review of Books. His first book is Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim ‘Other’. Supported by Platinum Patrons Dame Rosie & Michael Horton. @Francis_Wade
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