Bassam Almusallam (''Arabic: بسام المسلّم'') is a Kuwaiti award-winning novelist, short story writer, and former assistant editor at
KUNA
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. He has published three books including two short story collections, Under ''the Pigeons Tower'' (2010) and ''The Banner: Stories in The Windward'' (2013) which won
Laila al-Othman Prize in the same year.
His short story, ''Adham Washing Machine'', won a competition organized by
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magazine and the London-based
BBC Arabic
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in 2012.
His debut novel, ''Valley of the Sun: The Phoenix Memo'' (2016), explores behind the scenes of the
Syrian Civil War following the journey of a Kuwaiti
ASU alumnus to join the
Nusra Front
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militia fight against the
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government between 2013 and 2014.
Syrian novelist
Fawwaz Haddad
Fawwaz Haddad (Arabic: فواز حدّاد) (born 1947) is a Syrian novelist.
He was born in Damascus and studied law at Damascus University. He held several jobs before taking up writing full-time. Haddad published his first novel ''Mosaic, ...
lauded the novel and Kuwaiti novelist
Ismail Fahd Ismail who praised it for its "boldness", describing it as "tragedy of the time/now".
The novel won the State Award for Literature in 2018, and is currently under translation to Chinese by China Intercontinental Press (CIP).
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Kuwaiti writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people