Saud Alsanousi

Saud Alsanousi

Saud Alsanousi (Arabic:سعود السنعوسي) (born 1981) is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist.[1] His debut novel 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. His novel The Bamboo Stalk, about immigrant workers, won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013).[2][3]

Saud Alsanousi lives in Kuwait and writes for the Al-Qabas newspaper.

Publications

• Prisoner of Mirrors (2010)

• The Bonsai And The Old Man (2011)

• The Bamboo Stalk (2012)

• Grandma Hessa's Mice (2015)

References

  1. ↑ IPAF profile
  2. ↑ M. Lynx Qualey (April 23, 2013). "Page-turning Novel by Young Kuwaiti Author Wins 2013 ‘Arabic Booker’". Arabic Literature (in English). Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Benedicte Page (24 April 2013). "Saud Alsanousi wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction". The Bookseller. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
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