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, 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).[2][3]
Saud Alsanousi lives in Kuwait and writes for the Al-Qabas newspaper.
^IPAF profile Archived 2014-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
^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.
^Benedicte Page (24 April 2013). "Saud Alsanousi wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction". The Bookseller. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
SaudAlsanousi (Arabic: سعود السنعوسي, born 1981) is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist. His debut novel The Prisoner of Mirrors (2010) won the Leila Othman...
English). Retrieved 23 April 2013. Benedicte Page (24 April 2013). "SaudAlsanousi wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction". The Bookseller. Retrieved...
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