Saud Alsanousi (born 27 May 1981) is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist. 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, 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 (2013).
Published works
The Bamboo Stalk, By (author), Bloomsbury USA, 2015, Book, Arabic, English
Grandma Hessa's Mice, By (author), Arab Scientific Publisher and Difaf Publishing, 2015, Book
Naqaat Saleha (Saleha’s Camel), By (author), Arab Scientific Publisher and Difaf Publishing, 2019, ISBN-13, 9786140128880, Book
Awards
International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2013
Laila Al-Othman Award for Youth Creativity in Story and Novel, 2010
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