Hear award-winning female novelists at this year’s Litfest

Unmissable Female Writers at Emirates Festival of Lit
Unmissable Female Writers at Emirates Festival of Lit
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Christina Dalcher

The author of Vox, a nightmarish vision of a future where women are forbidden from speaking more than 100 words a day. Vox is often recommended to fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and offers a window to a frightening version of a world not too dissimilar from ours.

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Clare Mackintosh

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Esi Edugyan

Her novel Washington Black won the Giller Prize and was a Man Booker finalist and is the amazing story of a slave’s bid for freedom, inspired by a true story.

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Hoda Barakat

This phenomenal talent who won the 2019 IPAF for her most recent novel, Night Mail which tells of five different letters, introducing her novel’s characters and the immense change they endure overnight.

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Jokha Alharthi

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, Jokha will be at the Festival with Celestial Bodies, translated by Marilyn Booth.

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Tayari Jones

The international best selling author is writer to four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and Barack Obama’s summer reading list and has won many awards including the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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Fatima Bhutto

Born into a political dynasty, her novel The Runaways poses provocative questions on what attracts young people to extremism.

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Nadiya Hussain

TV presenter, cook and bestselling author transformed her life beyond anything she could have imagined after winning the BBC’s The Great British Bake Off in 2015. In her book Finding My Voice, she considers her roles as mother, Muslim, working woman and celebrity.

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