{"id":2208,"date":"2015-09-15T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2015-09-15T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T12:33:27","slug":"emirates-airline-festival-of-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/emirates-airline-festival-of-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Airline Festival Of Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author One-Liners<\/p>\n<p>Susan Abulhawa<br \/>\nAuthor of &#8216;Mornings in Jenin&#8217; and the upcoming &#8216;The Blue Between Sky and Water&#8217; and founder of the children&#8217;s organisation Playgrounds for Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Lulwah Al Mansouri<br \/>\nNovelist, poet and participant in the IPAF Nadwa, author of the award-winning &#8216;We Came from the Mountain&#8217;s Rib&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Antony Beevor<br \/>\nHighly-regarded and popular historian, author of &#8216;Stalingrad&#8217;, &#8216;The Second World War&#8217; and &#8216;Ardennes 1944: Hitler\u2019s Last Gamble&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Child<br \/>\nAuthor and illustrator known for &#8216;Charlie and Lola&#8217;, &#8216;Clarice Bean&#8217;, &#8216;Ruby Redfort&#8217; and &#8216;The New Small Person&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Clarke<br \/>\nWelsh poet, playwright, editor and writer of &#8216;A Recipe for Water&#8217;; appointed National Poet of Wales in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Judy Finnigan<br \/>\nBest known as one half of Richard &amp; Judy, her first novel was &#8216;Eloise&#8217; and her upcoming novel is &#8216;I Do Not Sleep&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Haig<br \/>\nBestselling writer of &#8216;Reasons to Stay Alive&#8217; and &#8216;The Last Family in England&#8217; whose books for adults and children have been translated into nearly 30 languages.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Hawking<br \/>\nCreator of the George Greenby series that brings complex sciences to the attention of a young audience.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Jobling<br \/>\nIllustrator, animator and author best known for &#8216;Bob the Builder&#8217;, the &#8216;Wereworld&#8217; series and &#8216;Frankenstein&#8217;s Cat&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Lord Brown<br \/>\nAuthor of the acclaimed historical novels &#8216;The Beauty Chorus&#8217;, &#8216;The Perfume Garden&#8217; and upcoming &#8216;The House of Dreams&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Madeley<br \/>\nBest-known as one half of Richard &amp; Judy, he is also the author of novels &#8216;Some Day I&#8217;ll Find You&#8217; and &#8216;The Way You Look Tonight&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Meres<br \/>\nActor and award-winning author of children&#8217;s books including the &#8216;World of Norm&#8217; series and teen novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author One-Liners Susan Abulhawa Author of &#8216;Mornings in Jenin&#8217; and the upcoming &#8216;The Blue Between Sky and Water&#8217; and founder of the children&#8217;s organisation Playgrounds for Palestine. Lulwah Al Mansouri Novelist, poet and participant in the IPAF Nadwa, author of the award-winning &#8216;We Came from the Mountain&#8217;s Rib&#8217;. Antony Beevor Highly-regarded and popular historian, author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}