Author Biography

Saud Al-Sanousi ( 1981- ) Kuwaiti writer and novelist , member of the Kuwaiti Writers Association and the Kuwaiti Journalists Association. He won the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction in its sixth session for his novel The Bamboo Leg, which won the State Encouragement Prize in the State of Kuwait in 2012 .  It is a novel that deals with the subject of foreign workers in the Gulf countries. It was chosen from among 133 submitted novels for the award. Al-Sanussi has written in a number of Kuwaiti and Gulf newspapers and magazines, and in 2018 he joined the family of writers for Zahrat Al Khaleej magazine , in which he publishes a weekly article.

Spreading the story of the bonsai and the old man, which won first place in the short stories competition conducted by Al Arabi Kuwaiti magazine in cooperation with BBC Arabic Radio . He released his first novel, Prisoner of Mirrors, in 2010, and it won the Laila Al-Othman Award for Youth Creativity in Story and Novel in its fourth session. He also published the novel Mice of My Mother Hessa, which deals with the issue of sectarianism in Kuwait, and the novel was later banned by the regulatory body in the writer's country.