{"id":306712,"date":"2022-02-07T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=306712"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:47:13","slug":"brazilian-author-selected-for-writers-fellowship-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-author-selected-for-writers-fellowship-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian author selected for writer\u2019s fellowship in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil\u2019s Zana Bonafe<\/strong> was selected to be part of the First Chapter \u2013 The ELF Seddiqi Writers\u2019 Fellowship, a support and development program for emerging authors living in the United Arab Emirates and the surrounding region. Dubai-based, Bonafe was chosen together with nine other people and will participate in a year-long writing mentorship project that could lead to the publishing of a book. Pictured above, Bonafe during the announcement.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Zana Bonafe: A career as a writer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the first fellowship held by the world-renowned Emirates Airline Festival of Literature<\/strong>. Applicants had to submit an almost-completed manuscript to be developed and improved during the program. Renowned authors chose the applications and will give one-to-one mentorship sessions to the aspiring writers they selected.<\/p>\n

Bonafe<\/a> sent a project of the book What If<\/em> (working title) that addresses international adoption of children. The work of fiction tells the story of a successful lawyer from New York that seeks to learn who saved him from a poor childhood in Brazil. This leads him to a nun and a series of intriguing discoveries on charity and international adoption.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian writer was chosen by India\u2019s author and journalist Shobhaa De<\/strong>, who published 20 books \u2014 including many bestsellers \u2014 and founded a publishing house in India. \u201cShe’s a very experienced person, and I\u2019m extremely excited to get to learn from her,\u201d Bonafe said.<\/p>\n

Besides this one-to-one mentorship, writing fellows will be able to join a series of classes held by renowned writing institutions. They will also be taken on an international trip to a book festival to connect with publishing houses and agents, said Bonafe, who\u2019s yet to learn more details on the program.<\/p>\n

The ten selected authors for the First Chapter \u2013 The ELF Seddiqi Writers\u2019 Fellowship <\/strong>include authors that write in Arabic and English. Selected Arabic writers include Huda Al Rawajfa, Mona Al Ali, and Sara Al Abdullah, while English writers include Zana Bonafe, Moxie Anderson, Sara Hamdan, Yi-Hwa Hanna, Mustafa Alrawi, Reem Hameed, and Kate Tindle.<\/p>\n

Zana Bonafe<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maid in Dubai by Zana Bonafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brazil\u2019s Zana Bonafe wrote the fiction book Maid in Dubai<\/em>. The book, for which she did over 200 interviews, tells the story of a Philippine woman who cleans houses in the emirate. Published in English in 2018, he book is available in physical and eBook formats on Amazon<\/strong> for regions and countries like the United States, Europe and Brazil, and occasionally the UAE.<\/p>\n

Holding a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), an MBA in the United Kingdom and a specialization from Harvard, Bonafe worked for over ten years as Marketing & Strategy professor in Dubai. She has lived in eight countries, including the US, Germany, UK and Switzerland, and she has lived in the UAE for 14 years. \u201cIt\u2019s home for me, now,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bonafe started writing professionally when she first arrived in the UAE. \u201cI\u2019ve changed my career some times in life, but I\u2019ve always liked writing,\u201d she says. She adds that reading had been encouraged by her parents, whose house featured a large library, and she used to write poetry in college. Bonafe participate in some Portuguese short story collections in Portugal, and she says she\u2019s developing a similar project with UAE-based female writers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, my books deal with human relationships, personal transformations, connections between people,\u201d Bonafe says. Her stories, she says, aim at making the reader think, reflect and feel. She lives with her husband, her daughter and her paintings in the UAE.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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