Alan John Saunders (22 July 1954[1] – 15 June 2012) was a prominent British philosopher, food writer, novelist and radio broadcaster in Australia.
[4][5] After a period of freelance work for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation while still based in London, Saunders moved to Sydney and joined Radio National in 1987.
[4][6] He was a regular and occasional columnist for media outlets such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, Australian Financial Review, Food Australia, Delicious Magazine and The Times Literary Supplement.
His satirical novel, Alanna (Penguin 2002), was described by the critic Peter Pierce in The Sydney Morning Herald's books pages as "sportive and engaging, fast paced and unsparing of its targets.
Saunders not only mocks the pretensions of the Australian literary world, but the wider community that is content to be deluded, to consume ersatz spirituality where and however it is peddled, to embrace the author as much as the book."