At Gulf News they report that Winners of Emirates Novel Award honoured (complete with a great lots-of-hands-on-the-prize photograph).
Any local recognition seems like a positive, and maybe it helps get some attention farther afield too -- not too much Emirati fiction making it abroad nowadays ..... (At around US$16,000 the prize isn't huge, but not bad.)
Any local recognition seems like a positive, and maybe it helps get some attention farther afield too -- not too much Emirati fiction making it abroad nowadays ..... (At around US$16,000 the prize isn't huge, but not bad.)