Adelaide Writers' Week - in pictures

Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark whose most recent novel Daughters of Mars is a story of nurses in the first world war Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Chika Unigwe, Nigerian writer based in Belgium whose novel On Black Sisters' Street tells of African women working in Antwerp's red light district Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Australian poet John Tranter. His most recent collections include the prize-winning Starlight: 150 poems and Urban Myths: 210 poems, new and selected Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Australian writer, opera librettist and doctor Peter Goldsworthy, who is also chair of Adelaide Writers' Week Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Melbourne-based poet L. K. Holt, whose collections include Patience, Mutiny and Man, Wolf, Man Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Literary critic Geordie Williamson, author of The Burning Library about the death of Oz-lit Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Graphic illustrator Dan McGuiness, a rising star from Adelaide Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Peter Robb, the Australian author of the Caravaggio biography, M and a new collection of his work going back 35 years, Lives Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Isobelle Carmody, Australian writer for young adults whose work includes The Obernewtyn Chronicles Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Karen Lord, a rising star of speculative fiction whose novels include Redemption in Indigo and The Best of all Possible Worlds Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Robin de Crespigny, Sydney filmmaker and co-author of The People Smuggler, the story of the 'Iraqi Schindler' Ali Al Jenabi Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Oliver Burkeman, scourge of the self-help community and author of the Guardian column This Column Will Save Your Life Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

British-Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub who also writes detective fiction as Parker Bilal Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian

Canadian-born novelist Madeleine Thien, whose novel Dogs at the Perimeter tells the story of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian