The 14th Emirates Airline Pageant of Literature has opened in Dubai.
Going down at its new canal-side venue, the Habtoor Metropolis Lodge, the pageant is the most important celebration of the written and spoken phrase within the Arab world.
British comic and worldwide youngsters's creator David Walliams was one of many large attracts for this yr's occasion. The ‘Gangsta Granny’ and ‘Mega Monster’ author informed Euronews, “It is great to be invited to a guide pageant since you get to fulfill a lot of fellow authors and in addition a lot of readers, and I believe the books, effectively it is fairly a particular connection you've got together with your readers.”
This years’ occasion additionally celebrates what would have been Charles Dickens’ 210th birthday. His great-great-great granddaughter Lucinda Dickens-Hawksley, herself an creator, hosted a sequence of classes.
“One of many issues that I really like about literary festivals is that it does convey folks collectively from all walks of life and from all elements of the world. And within the final two years we now have seen how insular folks turn into after they're not allowed to journey,” Lucinda mentioned.
She added that her well-known relative would have loved this explicit pageant. “Dickens would have actually adored this. He was one of many first folks to go on a sort of fashionable guide tour. He was typically seen as the primary fashionable creator as a result of he went off to America and Canada. He travelled round Italy and he talked about his books.”
The pageant attracts a bunch of worldwide and native literary expertise. Emirati creator and illustrator, Maitha Al Khayat, informed Euronews about her contribution to cultural understanding. “I believe once we write tales about our tradition, it simply reveals you who you might be and the place you have come from. And I believe that is actually essential,” she mentioned earlier than joking, “We have got so many wonderful tales up our sleeves and beneath our abayas. we're simply bursting with so many tales. We need to share them with the world and that is the proper place for it.”
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