Saud Alsanoussi - The Bamboo Stalk
A special event with the Kuwaiti author
Maqam for Arabic Studies and the Centre for Gulf Studies are delighted to invite you to a special event with the Kuwaiti author, Saud Alsanoussi, around his novel The Bamboo Stalk for which he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013).
| An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies seminar | |
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| Date | 28 March 2024 |
| Time | 15:30 to 16:30 |
| Place | IAIS Building/LT2 |
Event details
Session in Arabic, with English translation. Copies of the book will be available for the author to sign.
Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, who currently writes for Al-Qabas. His first novel The Prisoner of Mirrors, published in 2010, won the fourth Laila al-Othman Prize, recognizing novels and short stories by young writers. He also won the first prize for The Bonsai and the Old Man (2011) in the "Stories on the Air" competition organised by Al-Arabi magazine in partnership with BBC Arabic. After The Bamboo Stalk (2012), his novel Mama Hissa’s Mice (2015), also translated in English, has become a huge bestseller. He is also the author of Salha’s Camel (2017) and Pigeons of the House (2019).
The Bamboo Stalk is a “daring work which looks objectively at the phenomenon of foreign workers in Arab countries and deals with the problem of identity through the life of a young man of mixed race who returns to Kuwait, the ‘dream’ or ‘heaven’ which his mother had described to him since he was a child.” (International Prize for Arabic Fiction website)
Location:
IAIS Building/LT2
