Emirates Literature Foundation champions local and regional writers with new prizes – The National

Emirates Literature Foundation champions local and regional writers with new prizes – The National

The Emirates Literature Foundation, the non-profit behind the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, has announced the winners for three different literary prizes aimed at supporting local and regional talent.

Now in its ninth year, the Emirates LitFest Writing Prize has been shedding light on unpublished novelists living in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman or Saudi Arabia.

The selection process for the 2022 award involved three judges, namely Luigi Bonomi and Sheila Crowley, literary agents from the UK, and UAE publisher Kira Jean. Each judge chose an entry from the bank of submissions.