The authors for the 2017 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature have now been announced! More than 140 top authors from around the world will gather in Dubai on March 3-12 2017 for 10 days of literary activity.
Alan Titchmarsh
Gardening journalist and writer, radio and television presenter and author of numerous fiction Read More
Annabel Kantaria
Daily Telegraph Expat blogger and winner of the inaugural Montegrappa Writing Prize for 'Coming Read More
April Hardy
April Hardy’s varied career has included touring pantomimes, children’s theatre and a summer Read More
Bothayna Wail Al Essa
Kuwaiti author of the bestselling 'I Grew Up and Forgot to Forget', 'The Map of Wondering', Read More
Charlotte Butterfield
15 years ago Charlotte Butterfield was studying for her PhD in Women’s Literary Salons of the Read More
Eman Al Yousuf
Emirati writer and columnist; her novel 'Haris Alshams' (Guard of the Sun) won first prize at Read More
Hamad Al Hammady
Emirati novelist who has written novels featuring ground-breaking plots including 'Left Towards Read More
Jessica Jarlvi
In 2016, Jessica Jarlvi was a runner up in the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature Read More
Jill Dawson
Bestselling author whose latest book, 'The Crime Writer', stars the brilliant but haunted Read More
Keith Stuart
Games editor for the Guardian; writer of 'Sega Mega Drive: Collected Works' and author of 'A Read More
Leila Aboulela
Award-winning writer of 'The Translator', 'Minaret' and the upcoming 'The Kindness of Enemies'Read More
Mansoura Ez-Eldin
Egyptian novelist and journalist selected for the Beirut39 and the first Abu Dhabi nadwa; her Read More
Nadiya Hussain
Television sensation, winner of the 2015 Great British Bake-off and author of 'Nadiya's Read More
Parker Bilal
Author of seven novels and numerous short stories and essays; writer of the Makana Read More
Patrick Gale
Author of 'Notes from an Exhibition', 'A Perfectly Good Man' and 'A Place Called Winter'Read More
Piers Torday
Award-winning children's author of 'The Dark Wild'; he recently completed his father Paul Read More
Piyush Jha
Piyush Jha is an acclaimed film director, ad filmmaker and the author of bestselling Read More
Rabai Khalil Al Madhoun
Author, journalist and editor; his second novel 'Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Read More
Saeed Al Badi
Emirati author of several novels including 'Republics of Earth and Women', 'The Cursed City' Read More
Sue Moorcroft
Women's contemporary fiction writer who incorporates unexpected elements in her storiesRead More
Victoria Lustbader
Former editor and conservationist turned author of 'Hidden', 'Approaching the Speed of Light' Read More