Saud Alsanousi
  • Gender:Male
  • ISNI:0000000120383895
  • Year of Birth:1981, Kuwait
Biography

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