(Kuwait) Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist born in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Qabas and Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi, Al-Kuwait and Abwab magazines and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. His first novel
The Prisoner of Mirrors was published in 2010 and in that same year won the Laila al-Othman Prize, awarded to novels and short stories written by young writers. In the
Stories on the Air competition organised in July 2011 by the Al-Arabi magazine with BBC Arabic, he won first place for his story
The Bonsai and the Old Man. In 2012 he won the Kuwait Award for his second novel
The Bamboo Stalk which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.