Saud Alsanousi ( ar, سعود السنعوسي, born 27 May 1981) is a

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

i novelist and journalist. His

debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to p ...

''The Prisoner of Mirrors'' (2010) won the Leila Othman Prize. In 2011, his short story ''The Bonsai and the Old Man'' won a competition organized by '' Al-Arabi'' magazine and

BBC Arabic BBC Arabic ( ar, بي بي سي عربي) may refer to the Literary Arabic language radio station run by the BBC World Service, as well as the BBC's satellite TV channel, and the website that serves as an Literary Arabic language news portal an ...

. His novel ''The Bamboo Stalk'', written from the perspective of a boy of mixed Kuwaiti-Filipino parentage about his struggle to find a place in either country, won the

International Prize for Arabic Fiction The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ( ar, الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic ...

(2013). Saud Alsanousi lives in Kuwait and writes for the ''

Al-Qabas ''Al-Qabas'' ( ar, القبس) (English language, English: ''the Firebrand'' or ''the Starbrand'') is an Arabic daily Kuwaiti newspaper and tabloid published by Dar Al Qabas Press Printing Publishing and Distribution Company in Kuwait City. Hi ...

'' newspaper.

Publications

* Prisoner of Mirrors (2010) * The Bonsai And The Old Man (2011) * The Bamboo Stalk (2012) * Grandma Hessa's Mice (2015) * ''Hamam Al Dar'' (''Pigeons of the House'') (2017) *naqaat saleha (saleha’s camel) (2019)

References

External links

Biography from the international literature festival Berlin
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