Kuwaiti wins Novel on foreign workers
London author of Kuwait, Saud Alsanousi won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013 for his portrayal of the lives of foreign workers in the Gulf country in "the Bamboo Stalk." 31-year-old Alsanousi became the youngest winner of six years of the history of the $ 50,000 prize for the story through the eyes of Issa, the son of a Kuwaiti father and a Filipino mother. "All the judges agreed to the superior quality of this novel, both artistically and in terms of its social and humanitarian," Egyptian writer chair of the panel, Galal Amin said in a statement .. Back in the homeland his father in adulthood, Issa is in a difficult position. Rather than the mythical country, his mother described him, he discovers that he is caught between, natural biological relationships he shares with family his father and prejudices of a traditional society that considers a child of the Kuwaiti-Filipino heritage as socially unacceptable. the price is supported by the Booker prize Foundation in London and funded by the tourism and Culture Authority of Abu Dhabi, which marks his first year as a new sponsor in 2013.
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