First International Young Author award to be held in Dubai

New Delhi May 5 (IANS) In an attempt to encourage young and budding authors The Write Scene an online portal to nurture the young talent will be organising the first International Young Author Awards 2017 in Dubai in October 2017.

We have conceptualised these awards for authors under the age of 30. Young authors needs appreciation and has to be encouraged to take up the literary work that can change the world. In the past six months since we seriously started working on these awards we have got with us very credible names from the literary circles said Deeba Salim Irfan Founder The Write Scene in a statement.

Eminent authors like author and poet Keki N. Daruwala literary agent Mita Kapur author Namita Gokhale former editor-in-chief of Femina Manju Ramanan and British journalist Gwyneth Rees among others will feature at the event.

Nominations for the awards are open for books written in English and published between January 1 2015 and December 31 2016.

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