The line-up of the fifth Emirates Airline Festival of Literature goes beyond marquee names. Emerging Emirati writers are strongly represented with novelist Lulwah Al Mansouri and children’s author Reem Al Garg, among others. The stellar cast of more than 40 authors from different parts of the world includes Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, popular British crime fiction writer Alexander McCall Smith and Pakistan’s Mohsin Hamid.
As The National reported yesterday, the four-day festival will be held in Dubai in March. It is themed around Alice in Wonderland, more particularly the sense of wonder that comes with opening a book and being transported through space and time to other lands.
There will be a special focus on young readers with puppeteers at Al Mamzar Theatre acting out scenes from Michael Morpureo’s haunting children’s novel War Horse and a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Clearly, the festival will appeal to children of all ages. Why miss it?
