As well as a host of amazing local authors, there are so many wonderful international authors visiting our city for the Melbourne Writers Festival this year! (You can find the full program here).

Here are ten internationals we can’t wait to see.

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of such groundbreaking books as The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

See her at: An Audience With Naomi Klein; Naomi Klein: Capitalism & The Climate

Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernières is best known as the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Novel in 1994. His most recent novel is The Dust That Falls from Dreams.

See him at: Louis de Bernières: Opening Night Address; Louis de Bernières: Ask a Novelist

Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith. Her most recent novel, The Paying Guests, was shortlisted for this year’s Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Fiction.

See her at: Queer Literary Salon; Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

Rob Thomas

Rob Thomas is an author, producer, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the critically acclaimed television series Veronica Mars and co-creator of 90210, Party Down and iZombie.

See him at: Rob Thomas: Veronica Mars to iZombie; Veronica Mars: The Pilot

Sarai Walker

Sarai Walker is an American writer and editor. Dietland is her first novel.

See her at: The Book That Changed Me: Fight Club; Coffee & Papers; Sarai Walker: Dietland

Will Self

Will Self is a British author, journalist, political commentator and television personality. His work has been translated into 22 languages. His most recent novel is Shark.

See him at: Will Self: The Death of the Novel; The Politics and Pleasures of Walking; Will Self: Closing Night Address

Suki Kim

Suki Kim is Korean American writer and Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow. Her latest book is Without You, There is No Us: My Secret Life Teaching the Sons of North Korea’s Elite.

See her at: Diaspora & Belonging; North Korea Uncovered

Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter. He’s the author of The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and, most recently, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.

See him at: ABC’s The Book Club; Triple R Breakfasters Live; Jon Ronson: Shame Culture

Laurie Penny

Laurie Penny is a journalist, feminist, geek and author of five books. Her most recent work is Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution.

See her at: Talking Points: Laurie Penny on Feminism; Laurie Penny: Unspeakable Things; Fair Australia

Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is an British Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch and the London Review of Books. His most recent work is The Extreme Centre: A Warning.

See him at: Tariq Ali: The Twilight of Democracy; Triple R Breakfasters Live; Tariq Ali: The Islam Quintet

Other international festival guests include Annie Barrows, Daniel Handler, Sarah Winman, Jack Andraka, S.J. Watson, Annie Barrows, Eleanor Catton, Marc Lewis, Gideon Raff, and many, many more!