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Emirates Airline Festival of Literature kicked off the first day of their 2024 edition with a ceremony to honour the winners of the Chevron Readers’ Cup. The award ceremony followed an extremely competitive final round which was held the same morning. The reading competition pitches student teams against each other in an assessment of questions from a list of books by a variety of international authors.
The prize for adult fiction was judged by Luigi Bonomi, leading literary agent and founder of LBA Books.
Toppers identified after avid readers answer questions from a list of books
‘Chevron Readers’ Cup’ sought masters of reading skills; winners awarded book vouchers
DUBAI, 5th February, 2022 (WAM) -- The next generation of writing talent, the winners of the Oxford University Press (OUP) Story Writing Competition, were honoured today at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (3-13 February 2022) in a special prize-giving ceremony. The annual competition is a fixture of the academic calendar with more than 3,700 students from the UAE sending in their entries this year. The competition runs in Arabic and in English and is divided into age-specific categories: 11 and under, 12-14, 15-17 and...