The Guardian’s Are You Game Show

Authors

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  Niraj Lal

  Dr Niraj (Nij) Lal is an ANU Visiting Fellow and host of the ABC Kids podcast Imagine This. He has a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge and has appeared on Play School, Catalyst, and heaps more. His awards include the Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science and the Royal Societies of Australia and NZ Piasecki Prize for Outstanding Writing on Social Change. His latest book is Behind the Screens.   
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  Lally Katz

  Lally Katz is a screenwriter, playwright and memoirist, widely regarded as one of Australia’s most in-demand writers. The Sydney Morning Herald described her work as “if The Simpsons were written by Tennessee Williams.” She has written more than 50 plays produced on major stages in Australia and internationally. Her show Stories I Want to Tell You in Person toured Australia, Mexico and India and became an ABC program. She has developed projects with FX, Showtime and ABC Signature, wrote for Hulu’s The Great, and has written for Sunny Nights (Stan) and Shaun Tan’s animated series Tales From Outer Suburbia (ABC). Her memoir My Cursed Vagina is published by Allen & Unwin.
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  Robert Forster

  Robert Forster is a Brisbane-born and based musician and writer. In 1978 he co-founded the internationally acclaimed rock band The Go-Betweens with Grant McLennan. They released nine albums during their career. A parallel career began for Forster in 2005, when he was appointed music critic for The Monthly. A year later he won the Geraldine Pascall Prize for this writing; and a collection of his journalism, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, was published in 2009. Forster left The Monthly in 2013 to devote more time to writing his memoir, Grant & I. In 2015, Forster’s alma mater, the University of Queensland, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.
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  Sean Kelly

  Sean Kelly is the author of Quarterly Essay 100. He also wrote The Game: a portrait of Scott Morrison, for which he was a Walkley finalist in 2022. In 2024 he was a finalist for the Walkley Foundation's Freelance Journalist of the Year. In 2023 he was awarded the Keith Dunstan Quill for Commentary. He is a weekly columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and a contributor to The Monthly. 
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  Steph Harmon

  Steph Harmon is the culture editor of Guardian Australia. Prior to that she was founding editor of Junkee.com, and editor of the Brag.
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  Stephanie Convery

  Stephanie Convery is an award-winning journalist and former deputy culture editor at Guardian Australia. Prior to joining the Guardian, she was the deputy editor of Overland magazine and a freelance writer and arts worker. Her first book was the critically acclaimed After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne (Viking), which was long-listed for the Walkley Book Award and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, among others.

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