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Saud Alsanousi
Saud Alsanousi (al-Sanousi) is a Kuwaiti novelist, journalist and winner of the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He was born in 1981.
His first novel Sijeen al-Maraya (Prisoner of Mirrors) was published in 2010 and in the same year won the fourth Leila Othman Prize, awarded for novels and short stories by young writers. In the “Stories of the Air” competition, organised in July 2011 by Al-Arabi magazine with BBC Arabic, he won first place for his story “The Bonsai and the Old Man.”
His second novel, Saq al-Bamboo (The Bamboo Stalk), won the Kuwait State Prize for Letters in 2012 and the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Its translation by Jonathan Wright won the 2016 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
His third novel, Mama Hissa’s Mice, was longlisted for the 2017 cycle of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Young Author category. He was further longlisted in both 2019 and 2020 by the prize for his novels The Dove of the House and Saleha’s Camel respectively.
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Contributor's Issues
Banipal 47 - Fiction from Kuwait (2013)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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