Khawla al-Qazwini is a

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i novelist. She has published several novels, beginning with ''Divorced from Reality'' in 1986; she has also produced a volume of nonfiction, ''Letters from Our Life'' (1988). She began writing at a time when

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was more conservative. Today she is considered part of the older generation of Kuwaiti

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, among whom she is one of only four to have published a novel.

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