മുൻ അതിഥികൾ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്: 1999 – Alan Duff , and Peter Porter 2002 – Jodi Picoult , Lloyd Jones , Giles Milton and Neil Hanson 2003 – Antony Beevor , Jonathan Franzen , Catherine Millet , Janette Turner Hospital , Nicholas Shakespeare , and CK Stead 2004 – Alan Bennett , Alain de Botton , Hilary Mantel , Tim Krabbe , Susanna Moore , Jane Campion , Louis de Bernières , Salam Pax , John W. Dean , Harvey Pekar , Alexei Sayle , ZZ Packer , and David Sedaris 2005 – Lewis Lapham , Alan Hollinghurst , Deirdre Bair , Professor Harold Bloom , Tariq Ali , David Suzuki , Jared Diamond , Suad Amiry , Michael Winter , Colin McAdam and Miriam Toews 2006 – Naomi Wolf , Anna Politkovskaya , Michael Burleigh , Andy Borowitz , Susan Orlean , Aleksandar Hemon , Hendrik Hertzberg , Mark Danner , Haifa Zangana , John Banville , Edmund White , and Maya Angelou 2007 – Andrew O'Hagan , Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Bei Dao , Will Hutton , Antony Beevor, William Dalyrmple , Lionel Shriver , Richard Ford , Andrei Makine , Rachel Seiffert , Mohsin Hamid and Steven Hall 2008 – Jon Lee Anderson , Andrew J. Bacevich , Michael Pollan , John Gray , and Jeanette Winterson 2009 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Alex Ross , and Kazuo Ishiguro 2010 – John Carey , Colm Tóibín , Lionel Shriver , Yiyun Li , John Ralston Saul , Bill McKibben , and Raj Patel 2011 – Ingrid Betancourt , Howard Jacobson , A. A. Gill , Anthony Bourdain , Téa Obreht , Izzeldin Abuelaish , Kei Miller , Kader Abdolah , Michael Cunningham , David Mitchell , AC Grayling , Michael Connelly , Gail Dines , and Daniel Altman 2012 – Hisham Matar , Jeffrey Eugenides , Dava Sobel 2013 – Molly Ringwald , Ruby Wax , Claire Messud 2014 – Irvine Welsh , Vince Gilligan , Alice Walker 2015 – Michael Connelly , Anthony Horowitz , Douglas Coupland , Norman Doidge , Alan Cumming , Atul Gawande , David Walliams , Michael Frayn , James Patterson (out of season event) 2016 – Gloria Steinem , Jonathan Franzen , Marlon James , Julian Barnes , William Boyd , Jeanette Winterson , Kate Tempest , Yanis Varoufakis , Hanya Yanagihara , Paul Muldoon , Yeonmi Park 2017 – Anne Enright , Henry Marsh , Ian Rankin , George Saunders , A. N. Wilson മുൻ പ്രാദേശിക അതിഥികൾ 1997 – Robert Dessaix , Andrew McGahan , Matthew Condon , Bernard Cohen , Christos Tsiolkas , Gillian Mears 2001 – Lee Tulloch 2002 – Geoffrey Atherden , Bernard Cohen 2003 – Sonya Hartnett , David Malouf , Danny Katz , Louis Nowra 2005 – Bob Carr and John Kinsella 2006 – Alex Miller , Robert Drewe , Kate Grenville , Les Murray , Tegan Bennett Daylight , Peter Singer , Tim Flannery , Gail Jones 2007 – Raimond Gaita 2008 – Mem Fox , Peter van Onselen , Michelle de Kretser , Gail Jones , Drusilla Modjeska 2010 – Peter Carey , Les Murray, Alex Miller, Ross Garnaut , Clive Hamilton 2011 – Suelette Dreyfus , Annette Shun Wah , David Hicks 2012 – Kathy Lette 2013 – Claudia Karvan , Brendan Cowell 2014 – Christos Tsiolkas , Michelle de Kretser , Robert Dessaix 2015 – Richard Flanagan , Annabel Crabb , Leigh Sales , Helen Garner , David Malouf , Les Murray , Andy Griffiths , Julia Gillard 2016 – Elizabeth Harrower , Anna Funder , Magda Szubanski , Stan Grant , Kerry O'Brien , Bob Brown , Charlotte Wood 2017 – Julia Baird , Jimmy Barnes , Peter Corris , Clementine Ford , Liane Moriarty അടയ്ക്കുന്ന വിലാസം 2011 James Gleick 'Perish the thought' 2012 Dava Sobel 2013 Claire Messud 2014 Emma Donoghue 2015 Helen Macdonald 2016 Hanya Yanagihara 2017 Susan Faludi ഓർഗനൈസേഷണൽ ഘടന