Mohammed Hasan Alwan | |
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| Born | (1979-08-27)27 August 1979 |
| Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
| Genre | Novels, short stories |
Mohammed Hasan Alwan (Arabic:محمد حسن علوان; born 27 August 1979) is aSaudi Arabian novelist and the Chief Executive Officer ofthe Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission affiliated with the Ministry of Culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, appointed in 2020. He was born inRiyadh and studiedComputer Information Systems atKing Saud University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 2002. He also obtained anMBA from theUniversity of Portland,Oregon in 2008 and Ph.D fromCarleton University,Ottawa in 2016.[1]
Alwan is the third Saudi novelist to win theInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction (often referred to as the Arabic Booker) in 2017, following novelistsAbdo Khal in 2010 and Raja'a Alem in 2011.[2][3]
Alwan has published five novels to date:Saqf Elkefaya (2002),Sophia (2004),Touq Altahara (2007), "Al-Qundus" (2011), and "Mouton Sageer" (2016). His work has appeared in translation inBanipal magazine ("Blonde Grass" and "Statistics", translated byAli Azeriah); inThe Guardian ("Oil Field", translated byPeter Clark);[4] and inWords Without Borders ("Mukhtar", translated byWilliam M. Hutchins).[5]
His work was published in the Beirut39 anthology (Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World, edited bySamuel Shimon) and in the IPAF Nadwa anthology (Emerging Arab Voices, edited byPeter Clark).
In 2009-10, Alwan was chosen as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 40 by theBeirut39 project. He was also a participant in the firstIPAF Nadwa in 2009.
In 2013, his novel,Al-Qundus, was shortlisted in theInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013).[6] In 2015, Alwan won the Arab World Institute's Prix de la Littérature Arabe forAl-Qundus, translated to French by Stéphanie Dujols asLe castor.[7] It was considered the best novel to be translated into French in 2015.[8] In 2017, he won theInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction forA Small Death, a novel aboutIbn Arabi.[9]
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