Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian novelist who lives in West Hobart, Tasmania. He is the author of The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish and The Narrow Road to the Deep North which won the Man Booker Prize for 2014.
Mathew John is currently a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has worked with the law and culture programme at the Centre for the Study of Culture and So
Samer Al-Saber is assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Stanford University. He is a director and scholar of theatre in the Middle East.
