TARIQ ALI Well-known Historian, Novelist, Film-maker, Campaigner and Political Commentator
HANIF KUREISHI Oscar-nominated Screenplay Writer, Film-maker, Playwright and Novelist; Whitbread-winner (for The Buddha of Suburbia)
LEILA ABOULELA Orange-prize Nominated for Two Books (The Translator; Minaret)
MOHSIN HAMID Booker-nominated Author (for The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007)
AHDAF SOUEIF Booker-nominated Author (for The Map of Love, 1996)
KAMILA SHAMSIE Orange-shortlisted Author of Burnt Shadows, 2009
ZAHID HUSSAIN Author of The Curry Mile
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH Booker- and Whitbread-nominated Author (for Paradise, 1994)
NADEEM ASLAM Prize-winning Young Novelist (Season of the Rainbirds won the Betty Trask award; Maps for Lost Lovers won the Kiriyama Prize)
ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB Novelist (The Road from Damascus, 2008)
TAHMIMA ANAM Bangladeshi Writer
AAMER HUSSEIN Author of Short Stories and Novels
FADIA FAQIR Jordanian Writer