A number of big-name expat Australian authors will be returning home for next year's Adelaide Writers' Week, which has just announced its author line-up.

Peter Carey, whose new novel His Illegal Self is due from Random House in February, will be returning from New York to attend the event and Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks, who also lives in the US, will be attending with a new novel People of the Book due in February from Fourth Estate.

Germaine Greer will make her debut at the festival to promote Shakespeare's Wife (Bloomsbury).

Among the other authors attending from overseas are recent Man Booker hopeful Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, Thomas H Cook, Linda Grant and Siri Hustvedt. They will be joined by local authors including Azhar Abidi, Inga Clendinnen, Gabrielle Lord, Roger McDonald, David Malouf and Carrie Tiffany.

For a full list of names, visit the Writers' Week website here.

Adelaide Writers; Week is a biennial event held during the Adelaide Festival, which in 2008 runs from 29 February to 16 March. Writers' Week itself runs from 2 to 7 March.

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