Saud Alsanousi
Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist. His debut novel The Prisoner of Mirrors 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.
Saud Alsanousi lives in Kuwait and writes for the Al-Qabas newspaper.Publications
