Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
Author List 2015
Forename
Surname
One-liner
Nationality
Genre
Major works
Kamal
Abdel-Malek
Academic and novelist with an interest in
cultural encounters. Author of 'America in an
Arab Mirror', 'Come with Me from Jerusalem'
and 'Qalsafa: Philosophical Humor in
Egyptian Arabic'
Egyptian
Fiction/ Cultural
Studies
Joe
Abercrombie
Author of the bestselling First Law Trilogy,
three stand-alone fantasy novels for adults,
and most recently 'Half a King', his first book
for young adults
British
Fantasy
Zeina
Abirached
Lebanese illustrator and comic artist, author
of 'A Game for Swallows' and 'I Remember
Beirut'
Lebanese
Comics
America in an
Arab Mirror,
Come with Me
from
Jerusalem,
Qalsafa
First Law
Trilogy, Best
Served Cold,
The Heroes,
Red Country,
Half a King
A Game for
Swallows, I
Remember
Beirut
Chimamanda
Ngozi
Adichie
Author of the Orange Prize-winning 'Half of
a Yellow Sun' and the National Book Critics
Circle Award-winning 'Americanah'
Nigerian
Fiction
John
Agard
Acclaimed Guyanese author, poet and
playwright whose collections include
'Weblines' and 'Half-Caste'; awarded the
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2012
Guyanese
Poetry
Saladin
Ahmed
Science fiction and fantasy author whose
works include the Locus Award-winning
'Throne of the Crescent Moon' and
'Engraved on the Eye'
American
Fantasy
Throne of the
Crescent
Moon,
Engraved on
the Eye
Kaltham Ali
Al-Ghanim
Professor of Sociology at Qatar University
and author of the children's book 'Hamda
and Fisaikra'
Qatari
Children's
Hamda and
Fisaikra
Naif
Al-Mutawa
Creator of the comic book series 'The 99',
the first Islamic superhero team
Kuwaiti
Comics
The 99
Mai
Al-Nakib
Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Kuwait University,
author of the short story collection 'The
Hidden Light of Objects', winner of the
Edinburgh First Book Award
Kuwaiti
Fiction
The Hidden
Light of Objects
Omnia
Amin
Author, translator and associate professor at
Zayed University. Editor of 'The Final Desert
Chant: An Anthology of Modern Emirati
Poetry'
Egyptian
Poetry
The Final
Desert Chant:
An Anthology
of Modern
Emirati Poetry
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Purple
Hibiscus, Half
of a Yellow
Sun,
Americanah
Weblines, HalfCaste, Travel
Light Travel
Dark,
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Anita
Anand
BBC journalist, presenter of the Radio 4
political programme 'Any Answers' and
author of 'Sophia: Princess, Suffragette,
Revolutionary'
Indian
History, Journalism
Sophia:
Princess,
Suffragette,
Revolutionary
Scott
Anderson
American novelist and journalist, author of
'Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial
Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle
East'
American
Fiction,
Journalism, History
Philip
Ardagh
Winner of the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize
and author of more than 70 books, including
the Eddie Dickens series, Grubtown Tales
and the Grunts series
British
Children's
Lawrence in
Arabia, The 4
O'Clock
Murders, The
Man Who Tried
to Save the
World
Eddie Dickens
series,
Grubtown
Tales series,
Grunts
Clement
Baloup
French cartoonist and and illustrator known
for his award-winning series 'Mémoires de
Viet kieu'
French
Comics
Un automne à
Hanoï, La Vie
en Rouge, Le
club du suicide
Mourid
Barghouti
Palestinian poet and writer, author of the
Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning 'I Saw
Ramallah' and its sequel 'I Was Born There,
I Was Born Here'
Palestinian
Memoir, Poetry
Hend
Bar
Young Emirati author whose first novel,
Kunar, won the 2014 Emirates Novel Award
Emirati
Fiction, Children's
I Saw
Ramallah, I
Was Born
There, I Was
Born Here,
Midnight
Kunar
Mary
Beardwood
Author of 'The Illustrated Encyclopedia of
Arabia' and 'Discovering Islamic Art', two
resources for children studying in Arabia
British
Art, History
Zeina Hashem
Beck
Lebanese poet whose first collection, 'To
Live in Autumn', won the Backwaters Prize,
and who is also known for her performance
poetry
Lebanese
Poetry
PG
Bhaskar
Author of the widely praised humourous
novels 'Jack Patel's Dubai Dreams',
'Corporate Carnival' and 'Mad in Heaven'
Indian
Fiction
Badriah Al
Bishr
Novelist and journalist, author of 'The
Battles of Tas Ma Tash' and 'Women Dice'
Saudi
Arabic Fiction,
Journalism
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The Illustrated
Encyclopaedia
of Arabia,
Discovering
Islamic Art
To Live in
Autumn
Jack Patel's
Dubai Dreams,
Jack is Back in
Corporate
Carnival, Mad
in Heaven
[Awaiting
confirmation of
correct English
titles]
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Jesse
Blackadder
Author of books for adults and children,
including 'The Raven's Heart' and the Dubaiset 'Paruku the Desert Brumby'
Australian
Children's/
Fiction
Luigi
Bonomi
Top UK literary agent, returning to host the
Montegrappa First Fiction Award and the
Quick Pitch for the third time
British
Getting published
Charley
Boorman
Travel writer, TV presenter and actor best
known for his long distance motorbike
journeys, including 'Long Way Round', 'Long
Way Down' and 'By Any Means'
British
Travel,
Documentary
Eric
Broug
Artist specialising in Islamic art, author of
'Islamic Geometric Design', which was
hailed as 'essential reading' by Islamic Arts
Magazine
Dutch
Art and Design
Alexander
Broun
One of the world's leading experts and
authors of ten-minute plays, founder of a
free access script website and driver in the
Short+Sweet festival movement
Australian
Drama
Tom
Callaghan
Creative group head at Saatchi & Saatchi
whose first novel, 'A Killing Winter', was
inspired by an Emirates LitFest workshop by
Mark Billingham
British
Crime/ Thriller
A Killing
Winter, A
Spring Betrayal
Jung
Chang
Author of the widely acclaimed 'Wild Swans',
'Mao: The Unknown Story' and 'Empress
Dowager Cixi'
Chinese
History
Zia
Chaudhry
Author of 'Just Your Average Muslim', a call
for mutual understanding between Muslims
and non-Muslims
Pakistani
Religion
Wild Swans,
Mao: The
Unknown Story
and Empress
Dowager Cixi
Just Your
Average
Muslim
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Paruku the
Desert Brumby,
Dexter the
Courageous
Koala, Stay:
The Last Dog
in Antarctica,
The Raven's
Heart
Agent for
Richard &
Judy, John
Humphrys,
Esther
Rantzen, Alan
Titchmarsh and Annabel
Kantaria and
Rachel
Hamilton
Long Way
Round, Race to
Dakar, Long
Way Down, By
Any Means,
Right to the
Edge
Islamic
Geometric
Design
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
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Steve
Cole
Author of the 'Astrosaurs' and 'Cows in
Action' books; he has taken over writing the
Young Bond series, beginning with 'Shoot to
Kill'
British
Children's
Astrosaurs,
Cows in Action,
Young Bond Shoot to Kill
David
Crystal
Linguist, academic and author who has
written more than 100 books on language,
including 'The Stories of English', 'You Say
Potato' and 'Txtng'
British
Language/
Linguistics
The Stories of
English,
Cambridge
Encyclopedia
of the English
Language, You
Say Potato,
Txtng
Sofana
Dahlan
Saudi lawyer, entrepreneur, angel investor
and public speaker, founder of the social
enterprise Tashkeil
Saudi
Business
Dana
Dajani
Award-winning Palestinian actor and writer
based in Dubai; also an event MC and part
of the freestyle musical collaboration
Floetics
Palestinian
Theatre/ Poetry
Kalubela (play)
Abdulla Hamdan
Bin
Dalmook
CEO of the Hamdan bin Mohammed
Heritage Center
Emirati
Poet
Al Mutawasif
Lewis
Dartnell
UK Space Agency research fellow and
author of the bestselling 'The Knowledge:
How to Rebuild our World from Scratch'
British
Science
The
Knowledge,
Life in the
Universe, My
Tourist Guide
to the Solar
System
Nasir Al
Dhaheri
Emirati journalist, novelist and photographer,
a member of the advisory board of the
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Emirati
Journalism,
Fiction,
Photography
Imtiaz
Dharker
Poet, artist and documentary film-maker; her
collections include Leaving Fingerprints and
Over the Moon
Pakistani/
British
Poetry
Leaving
Fingerprints
and Over the
Moon
Julia
Donaldson
Children's author most famous for 'The
Gruffalo' as well as dozens of other wellknown rhyming picture books
British
Children's
John
Dougherty
Author of ridiculously funny children's books,
most recently the Stinkbomb and Ketchupface series
British
Children's
The Gruffalo,
Charlie Cook's
Favourite Book,
The Snail and
the Whale,
Room on the
Broom
Stinkbomb and
Ketchup-face
series, Bansi
O'Hara series,
Zeus series,
Jack Slater
series, Niteracy
Hour
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Frank
Dullaghan
Irish poet and playwright based in Dubai,
whose poetry collections include 'Enough
Light to See the Dark' and 'The Same Roads
Back'
Irish
Poetry, Fiction,
Drama
Nawal
El-Saadawi
Widely acclaimed and respected Egyptian
feminist writer and academic, author of 'It Is
Blood', delivering the Orwell Lecture at the
2015 Emirates LitFest
Egyptian
Politics, Health
Mark
Evans
Adventurer and educator based in Oman
who promotes the desert as a source of
education and cultural understanding
British
Travel
Liz
Fenwick
Author of the Cornwall-set female fiction
novels 'The Cornish House', 'A Cornish
Affair' and 'A Cornish Stranger'
British
Romance
Jasper
Fforde
Author of humorous genre-bending books
including the 'Thursday Next' series,
'Shades of Grey' and the 'Nursery Crime'
series
British
Fantasy
Sir Maurice
Flanagan
The former Executive Vice Chairman of
Emirates Group, instrumental to the
founding of Emirates Litfest, will this year
introduce his first collection of poetry
British
Poetry
Klaus
Flügge
Award-winning founder of Andersen Press,
which has published more than 2000 books
for children
German
Publishing
www.andersen
press.co.uk/
Michael
Foreman
Renowned author and illustrator of books for
children and adults
British
Illustration
Dinosaurs and
All That
Rubbish, Cat
on the Hill, Fox
Tale,
Kensuke's
Kingdom (illus),
Why The
Animals Came
to Town, War
and peas, The
General
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On the Back of
the Wind,
Enough Light to
See the Dark,
The Same
Roads Back.
Woman at
Point Zero,
God Dies by
the Nile, The
Hidden Face of
Eve, Zina: The
Stolen Novel, It
Is Blood
55 Days,
Desert Voices,
Connecting
Cultures
The Cornish
House, A
Cornish Affair,
A Cornish
Stranger
Thursday Next
(series),
Nursery Crime
(series),
Shades of
Grey, The Last
Dragonslayer
(series)
Poetry
collection TBC
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
Author List 2015
Nicolas
Forzy
Filmmaker and author, whose script-writing
experience helped him write his first novel,
'Alphanumeric'
French
Young Adult
Joseph
Fowler
Professional dancer and theatre director,
former manager of DUCTAC, currently
Theatre and Entertainment Manager at
Madinat Jumeirah
British
Theatre
Adrian
Furnham
One of the most productive psychologists in
the world, a prolific author of books on
leadership and business psychology,
including 'High Potential'
British
Business,
Psychology
Charles
Glass
Broadcaster, journalist and writer, author of
'The State of Syria' and 'Deserter' and
presenter of 'Pity the Nation: Charles
Glass's Lebanon'
American
Journalism
Gautam
Goenka
President of Backstage - Dubai's largest
community theatre group
Indian
Theatre
Nidhal
Guessoum
Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the
American University of Sharjah, author of
more than 150 articles and several books,
including 'Islam's Quantum Question' and
'The Story of the Universe'
Algerian
Science
Reem Al
Gurg
Health advocate and author of children's
books, including 'Wid & Walid', 'Eid Cake'
and 'Maryam's Gifts'
Emirati
Children's
Liz
Hadaway
Experienced theatre director, actress &
workshop facilitator; Festival Director of
Short+Sweet Dubai
British
Theatre
Nabil Abou
Hamad
Artist and writer whose cartoons are
featured in Al Mustaqbal and Al Hayat
PalestinianLebanese
Art
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Alphanumeric
High Potential,
The New
Psychology of
Money, Dim
Sum
Management,
People
Management in
a Downturn
Deserter, The
State of Syria,
Tribes with
Flags
Islam’s
Quantum
Question:
reconciling
Muslim tradition
and modern
science, The
Story of the
Universe: from
primitive
conceptions to
the Big Bang
‘Wid & Walid’ ,
Eid cake,
Maryam’s Gifts,
Rainbow in My
Room
Short+Sweet
Dubai (Festival)
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
Author List 2015
Mohsin
Hamid
Author of 'Moth Smoke', 'The Reluctant
Fundamentalist' and most recently 'How to
Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia', which won
the Tizio Terzani Prize
Pakistani
Literary Fiction
The Reluctant
Fundamentalist
, How to Get
Filthy Rich in
Rising Asia
Rachel
Hamilton
Dubai-based author whose children's book
'The Case of the Exploding Loo' was
published after coming second place in the
Montegrappa First Fiction competition
British
Children's
The Case of
the Exploding
Loo
Jean Van
Hamme
Widely acclaimed Belgian comic-book writer,
best known for his series 'Thorgal', 'XIII' and
'Largo Winch'
Belgian
Comics
Thorgal, XIII,
Largo Winch,
Blake et
Mortimer
Sophie
Hannah
Author of acclaimed psychological thrillers,
most recently 'The Telling Error', and of the
new Hercule Poirot mystery 'The Monogram
Murders'
British
Crime/ Thriller
The Telling
Error, The
Monogram
Murders
Muna
Harib
Humanitarian who has set up organisations
to promote kindness, help low-income
Emiratis and aid Syrian refugees in Jordan
Emirati
Development
Katherine
Hedeen
Transator specialising in Latin American
poetry, recipient of a 2009 and a 2015
National Endowment for the Arts Translation
Project Grant
American
Poetry, Translation
Mona
Helmy
Prize-winning poet, short story writer and
journalist, her latest collection is 'Travelling
into the impossible'
Egyptian
Poetry, Journalism
Travelling Into
the Impossible
Bettany
Hughes
Aaward-winning historian, author and
broadcaster who has written about Helen of
Troy and Socrates and is currently writing
Istanbul: A Biography
British
History
Helen of Troy,
The Hemlock
Cup, Istanbul:
A Biography
Suzanne
Husseini
Author of 'When Suzanne Cooks: Modern
Flavours of Arabia' and presenter of one of
the Middle East's most popular cooking
shows
Palestinian
Cooking
'When Suzanne
Cooks: Modern
Flavours of
Arabia'
Brian
Johnson
Award-winning architect whose
accomplishments include Dubai Creek Golf
Club
British
Architecture
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Julia
Johnson
Author of more than a dozen children's
books, including the acclaimed 'The Leopard
Boy' and 'The Turtle Secret', which won the
2014 award for Best International Children's
Book at Sharjah Book Fair
British
Children's
The Pearl
Diver, Leopard
Boy, Turtle
Secret
Abdullah
Al-Jumah
Saudi Arabian traveller, author, lecturer and
legal counsel, author of three books
Saudi
History, Travel,
Law
Inaam
Kachachi
Iraqi novelist whose books 'The American
Grandaughter' and 'Tashari' have been
shortlisted for the International Prize for
Arabic Fiction
Iraqi
Fiction
Greats Without
Schools,
Orphans who
Changed the
Course of
History, Tales
of a Saudi in
Europe
The American
Grandaughter,
Tashari,
Sawaqi El
Quloub
Annabel
Kantaria
Daily Telegraph Expat blogger and winner of
the inaugural Montegrappa First Fiction
Competition for her novel 'Coming Home',
which led to a three-book deal
British
Fiction, Journalism
Coming Home
Mukesh
Kapila
Special Representative of the Aegis Trust
for the prevention of crimes against
humanity, author of 'Against a Tide of Evil'
Indian
Development
Against a Tide
of Evil
Satoshi
Kitamura
Highly regarded illustrator of children's
books, known for his distinctive artistic style
and award-winning books including 'Angry
Arthur' and 'When Sheep Cannot Sleep'
Japanese
Children's,
Translation
Angry Arthur,
When Sheep
Cannot Sleep,
A Ring of
Words (illus, ed
Roger Mc
Gough)
Jason
Kouchak
Widely acclaimed French pianist who has
toured globally and made guest
appearences with the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra
French
Music
Josh
Lacey
Author of the bestselling 'A Dog Called Grk',
'The Island of Thieves' and 'Dragonsitters'
British
Children's
Julie
Lewis
Adventurer and personal development
expert who led an expedition of UAE breast
cancer survivors to Antarctica
British
Adventure/
Personal
Development
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Grk series,
Dragonsitters
series, The
Island of
Thieves, The
Sultan's Tigers,
Bearkeeper
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Yang
Lian
Respected poet, free speech advocate and
organiser of cultural events
Chinese
Poetry
Stuart
MacBride
Award-winning crime writer praised for the
grit and black humour of his series featuring
Logan McRae and Ash Henderson
British
Crime
Sahar Naja
Mahfouz
Children's author and founding member of
HUNNA writers' group. Her latest book is
'Laytani Akul Laa'
Lebanese
Children's
Lulwah Al
Mansouri
Novelist, poet and participant in the IPAF
Nadwa, author of the award-winning 'We
Came from the Mountain's Rib'
Emirati
Fiction, Poetry
Lara
MatossianRoberts
Actor, stage director and event coordinator,
Lead Coordinator for SciFest Dubai
Armenian
Drama
James
Mayhew
Author and illustrator, the creator of beloved
characters Katie and Ella Bella Ballerina
British
Illustration,
Children's
Alexander
McCall Smith
One of the world's most prolific and popular
authors, creator of 'The No. 1 Ladies'
Detective Agency' and '44 Scotland Street'
British
Fiction
Morna
McDonald
Actor and drama facilitator who introduces
children to Shakespeare in the workshop
'Bamboozled By The Bard'
British
Theatre
Heather
McGregor
Businesswoman, financial advice columnist
and author of 'Mrs Moneypenny’s Financial
Advice for Independent Women'
British
Business
Leslie
McLoughlin
Arabist and historian who has interpreted for
the British government, author of
'Confessions of an Arabic Interpreter'
British
Language, History
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Lee Valley
Poems,
Concentric
Circles, Riding
Pisces, Where
the Sea Stands
Still
A Song for the
Dying, Logan
McRae series
(incl Cold
Granite)
LaytaniAkulLaa
(I Wish I Say
No), Sutra
Ajiba (Magical
Jacket)
We Came from
the Mountain's
Rib, The Last
Women in
Langa
Katie's Picture
Show, Ella
Bella Ballerina,
Koshka's Tales,
The Boy and
the Cloth of
Dreams
No. 1 Ladies
Detective
Agency,
Scotland
Street,
Corduroy
Mansions,
Emma
Mrs
Moneypenny’s
Financial
Advice for
Independent
Women
'Confessions of
an Arabic
Interpreter'
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
Author List 2015
Alexander
McNabb
Digital and online communications expert
and author of the trilogy of novels 'Olives',
'Beirut' and 'Shemlan'
British
Fiction, Digital
Communication
Olives, Beirut,
Shemlan
Dawn
Metcalfe
Managing Director of Performance
Development Services and author of
'Managing the Matrix: The Secret to
Surviving and Thriving in Your Organization'
American
Business
David
Mitchell
Author of the acclaimed novels
'Ghostwritten', 'number9dream' and 'Cloud
Atlas' and translator of 'The Reason I Jump'.
His latest novel is 'The Bone Clocks'
British
Literary Fiction
Michael
Morpurgo
Beloved, world-renowned author of many
children's books, perhaps most famously
'War Horse'; his latest is 'Listen to the Moon'
British
Children's
Ahmed
Mourad
Photographer, graphic designer, awardwinning filmmaker and author of the
bestselling thriller 'Vertigo' and the historical
novel '1919'
Egyptian
Crime/thriller
Managing the
Matrix: The
Secret to
Surviving and
Thriving in Your
Organization
Ghostwritten,
number9dream
, Cloud Atlas,
Black Swan
Green, The
Thousand
Autumns of
Jacob de Zoet,
The Bone
Clocks
War Horse,
Listen to the
Moon, Private
Peaceful,
Kensuke's
Kingdom, Why
the Whales
Came
Vertigo,
Diamond Dust,
Blue Elephant,
1919,
Shaikha Al
Muhairi
Emirati librarian, educator, reading advocate
and author, currently writing a novel for
young adults and an online guide to Arabic
Children's Literature
Emirati
YA Fiction,
Education
[one YA novel
in progress]
Ben
Murray
Folk singer and musicianwho played the
Songman in the National Theatre's
production of 'War Horse'
British
Music, Theatre
War Horse
(stage)
Jenni
Murray
Respected broadcaster best known for her
40 years of work for BBC TV and Radio,
including presenting Woman's Hour on
Radio 4 since 1987
British
Journalism
My Boy Butch,
Memoirs of a
Not So Dutiful
Daughter, The
Woman's Hour,
Is It Hot in
Here?
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David
Nicholls
Author and screenwriter whose works
include the bestselling novel 'One Day' and
the Booker-longlisted 'Us'
British
Fiction
One Day,
Starter for Ten,
The
Understudy, Us
Noura al
Noman
Author of the Ajwan Trilogy, one of the few
Arabic science fiction books for young adults
Emirati
YA Fiction
Ajwan Trilogy
Lauren
Oliver
Author of the award-winning young adult
novel 'Before I Fall', the 'Delirium' trilogy,
and 'Panic'
American
Children's
Delirium
Trilogy, Panic,
Before I Fall
Adele
Parks
Author of fourteen bestselling novels
including 'Spare Brides'; also a major
supporter of literacy initiatives
British
Fiction/ Romance
The State
We're In, Spare
Brides
Richard
Parks
Extreme environment athlete and former
professional rugby player, has climbed the
highest mountain on all 7 continents, author
of 'Beyond the Horizon'
British
Sport/ Adventure
Beyond the
Horizon
Hooda Shawa Al
Qaddumi
Winner of the 2008 Sheikh Zayed Award for
'The Birds' Journey to Mount Qaf', author of
acclaimed children's books and stage and
film producer
Kuwaiti
Children's, Film,
Stage
Fadwa Al
Qassem
Author, artist and translator who writes in
both Arabic and English, author of 'Paradise
No More' and The Scent of Cardamom'
Palestinian
Art, Fiction
The Birds'
Journey to
Mount Qaf, The
Animals vs the
Humans at the
Court of the
King of the Jinn
Paradise No
More, The
Scent of
Cardamom,
Book of
Forbidden
Thoughts
HE Sheikha
Lubna Bint Khalid
Al
Qasimi
UAE Minister for International Cooperation
and Development, President of Zayed
University and Head of the UAE Committee
of Humanitarian Aid
Emirati
UAE Government,
Development
Peter
Robinson
Canadian crime writer best known for the
Inspector Banks series, the most recent of
which is 'Abbatoir Blues'
Canadian
Crime/ Thriller
Inspector
Banks series
Deborah
Rodriguez
Author, hairdresser and activist against
domestic violence; famous for her books
about Afghanistan, her latest, 'The House on
Carnaval Street', follows her relocation to
Mexico
American
Memoir
Kabul Beauty
School, The
Little Coffee
Shop of Kabul,
The House on
Carnaval
Street/Margarit
a Wednesdays
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Victor
Rodriguez
Nunez
Award-winning Cuban poet, journalist,
literary critic, translator, and scholar
Cuban
Poetry
Eugene
Rogan
Respected historian, author of the highly
regarded 'The Arabs: A History' and 'The
Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the
Middle East'
American
History
Ahmed
Saadawi
Iraqi novelist, poet and screenwriter, author
of 'Frankenstein in Baghdad', winner of the
2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Iraqi
Fiction
Talal Salem Al
Sabri
Emirati poet, former director of Sharjah's
House of Poetry and member of the
Emirates Writers' Union; participated in the
first 'Prince of Poets'
Emirati
Poetry
Ashwin
Sanghi
One of India's best-selling authors, whose
most recent work includes the thriller
'Private India' and the non-fiction title '13
Steps to Bloody Good Luck'
Indian
Thriller, Self-Help
Saira
Shah
Award-winning documentary filmmaker who
has just published her first novel, 'The
Mouse-Proof Kitchen'
British
Journalism, Fiction
Kathy
Shalhoub
Creativity coach and author of 'Life as a
Leb-neh Lover: the Identity Crisis of a
Maybe-Lebanese'
Lebanese
Memoir, Coaching
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desde un
granero rojo
(Spanish), With
a Strange
Scent of World
(English anth.)
The Arabs, The
Fall of the
Ottomans,
Frontiers of the
State in the
Late Ottoman
Empire, The
War for
Palestine
Frankenstein in
Baghdad, The
Beautiful
Country,
Indeed He
Dreams or
Plays or Dies,
Anniversary of
Bad Songs
Hatta Taoud
(Until You
Come Back),
Kharir ad Daow
(Trickles of
Light)
The Rozabal
Line,
Chanakya’s
Chant, The
Krishna Key,
Private India,
13 Steps to
Bloody Good
Luck
The MouseProof Kitchen,
The
Storyteller's
Daughter,
Beneath the
Veil (doc),
Death in Gaza
(doc)
Life as a Lebneh Lover: the
Identity Crisis
of a MaybeLebanese
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Owen
Sheers
Author of the award-winning novel
'Resistance', the poetry collections 'Skirrid
Hill' and 'The Blue Book' and the highly
acclaimed verse drama 'Pink Mist'
British
Poetry, Fiction,
Drama
Pink Mist,
Mametz, The
Dust Diaries,
Skirrid Hill, The
Blue Book
Hind
Shoufani
Palestinian filmmaker and poet, founder of
the Poeticians collective
Palestinian
Poetry
Yrsa
Sigurðardóttir
Icelandic crime writer, author of the series
starring the lawyer Thóra Gudmundsdóttir,
including 'Silence of the Sea' and 'I
Remember You'
Icelandic
Crime/ Children's
Ted
Simon
Travel writer & journalist, most famous for
'Jupiter's Travels', his account of travelling
the world on a Triumph motorcycle
British
Travel
Graeme
Simsion
Author of the internationally-bestselling 'The
Rosie Project'; the sequel, 'The Rosie
Effect', will be published in December 2014
Australian
Fiction
Inkstains on the
Edge of Light,
More Light than
Death Could
Bear
Last Rituals,
My Soul to
Take, Ashes to
Dust, The Day
is Dark, Silence
of the Sea, I
Remember You
Jupiter's
Travels series,
The River
Stops Here,
Rolling
Through the
Isles
The Rosie
Project, The
Rosie Effect
Simon
Singh
TV director, science journalist and author of
'Fermat's Last Theorem', 'The Code Book'
and most recently 'The Simpsons and their
Mathematical Secrets'
British
Science/ Maths
David
Suchet
Actor most famous for his portrayal of the
great Belgian detective Hercule Poirot
British
Television
Yasir
Suleiman
Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the
University of Cambridge and Chair of the
International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Palestinian
Translation,
Culture
Walid
Taher
Winner of the Etisalat Prize for Arabic
Children's Literature for his book 'The Black
Dot'
Egyptian
Children's
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Big Bang, The
Code Book,
Fermat's Last
Theorem, The
Simpsons and
their
Mathematical
Secrets
Poirot, The
Way We Live
Now,
Oppenheimer
Arabic in the
Fray, Arabic,
Self and
Identity, A War
of Words
The Black Dot
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David
Tazzyman
Illustrator of children's books, including the
'Mr Gum' and 'Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face'
series and the picture book 'Eleanor's
Eyebrows'
British
Children's
Tian
French author and illustrator of Cambodian
origin, who writes graphic novels about the
experiences of Cambodia under the Khmers
Rouges
French
Comics
Joanna
Trollope
Author of eighteen highly acclaimed,
bestselling novels, most recently 'Balancing
Act' and, as part of The Austen Project,
'Sense & Sensibility'
British
Fiction
Nicolas
Wild
French author and illustrator, most famous
for the critically acclaimed 'Kabul Disco'
French
Comics
Markus
Zusak
Author of five books, including 'I am the
Messenger' and the international bestseller
'The Book Thief'
Australian
YA Fiction
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Mr Gum series
(illus),
Stinkbomb and
Ketchup Face
(illus) Eleanor's
Eyebrows
(illus) Five go
to Camp (illus)
L'année du
lièvre (The
Year of the
Hare)
Balancing Act,
Sense &
Sensibility
(Austen
Project), A
Village affair,
The Rector's
Wife, The Choir
Kabul Disco
The Book
Thief, Bridge of
Clay, I Am the
Messenger