Thursday, December 09, 2010

Palin and Atwood head to Emirates

The Bookseller - 08.12.10 - Katherine Button

Michael Palin, Margaret Atwood and Bernard Cornwell are among the authors to appear at the 2011 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, the Middle East's largest annual literary festival.

The third annual Emirates Festival takes place from the 8th to the 12th of March next year. Over 100 English- and Arabic-language authors have already signed up to take part, including Marina Lewycka, China Miéville, Tony Parsons, Aminatta Forna, Wole Soyinka, Simon Armitage, Benjamin Zephaniah and children's laureate Anthony Browne.

Isobel Abulhoul, festival director, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, said: "The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature has quickly established itself as one of the major literature festivals in the world and I’m delighted we have once again attracted the highest calibre of authors and thinkers from across the region and beyond."

For a full line-up, see http://emirateslitfest.com/.

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