Saud Alsanousi

Saud Alsanousi (سعود السنعوسي, born 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).

Saud Alsanousi lives in Kuwait and writes for the Al-Qabas newspaper.

Publications

 * Prisoner of Mirrors (2010)
 * The Bonsai And The Old Man (2011)
 * The Bamboo Stalk (2012)
 * Grandma Hessa's Mice (2015)
 * Hamam Al Dar (Pigeons of the House) (2017)
 * naqaat saleha (saleha's camel) (2019)