Featured Delegates

Kamila ShamsieKamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels,including In the City by the Sea;Salt and Saffron;Kartography;Broken Verses;and Burnt Shadows.

Her 2017 novel,Home Fire,was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018. Three of her novels have also received awards from Pakistan’s Academy of Letters.

Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Salima IkramSalima Ikram is a Professor,Archaeologist,Author and lifelong adventurer. She has become the leading expert on animal mummies and has authored several books,including Divine Creatures,The Mummy in Ancient Egypt,The Tomb in Ancient Egypt,and Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt.

Ikram is a contributor,and on camera personality,featured in Alexander,Making of a God.Robin Lane FoxRobin Lane Fox is a renowned historian and author. He is currently a Fellow of New College,Oxford,and University Reader in Ancient History. He is the author of numerous books and was the historical advisor for Oliver Stone's epic film Alexander.

His weekly gardening correspondence column for the Financial Times is the longest-running in Britain and is the basis to Thoughtful Gardening. Fatima Hasan An illustrious poet, Hasan is recognized for standing up for social issues, particularly those related to women.

Focusing on the predicament of women in Pakistani society, Hasan’s poetry has been published in several books. She is based in Karachi. Deepa Mehta An Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, Mehta is best known for her Elements trilogy: Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).

Earth was submitted by India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, while Water was Canada's official entry and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.Mohsin HamidA novelist,writer and brand consultant,Hamid has penned Moth Smoke(2000),The Reluctant Fundamentalist(2007),How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia(2013),Exit West(2017),and The Last White Man(2022).

He is the winner of the LA Times Book Prize and the Asian American Literary Award,among others.Michael PembrokeMichael Pembroke is the author of Arthur Phillip:Sailor,Mercenary,Governor,Spy,which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and Korea: Where the American Century Began, which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the NSW Premier's History Awards.

He is a former Supreme Court judge (2010–20) and is now the Chairman of Red Room Poetry.Geoff DyerGeoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice,Death in Varanasiand three previous novels,as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize,the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction,a Lannan Literary Award,the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award.

His books have been translated into 24 languages.

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