THE MONTEGRAPPA WRITING PRIZE AND THE WRITING CULTURE IT HAS FOSTERED IN THE UAE.
Many people toy with the idea of writing a book, a bestseller to be exact, so they would give up their day job, retire early, live some place warm and become full time writers. Why not? After all, so many literary greats, from George Eliot to William S. Burroughs, started their literary careers pretty late …