Kuwaiti literature
Kuwait has produced several prominent contemporary writers. There is also evidence that Kuwaiti culture has long been interactive with English and French literature. Some of the translators include Yaqoub Al-Hamad, Fathil Khalaf, poet Suleiman Al-Khulaifi, and Mahmoud Tawfeeq Ahmad who translated a number of short French plays by Molière.
Writers
- Louise Burfitt-Dons is the author of the spy thriller Our Man In Kuwait which is set during 1960 when Ian Lancaster Fleming visited the country leading up to Independence in 1961.
- Ismail Fahd Ismail was one of the first Kuwaiti writers to be taken seriously in the Arab world. Ismail Fahd Ismail has written over 20 novels and numerous short-story collections.
- Taleb al-Refai is a journalist, writer and a employee. Each month, he produces an art magazine called Jaridat al-Funun.
- Laila al-Othman is an author of novels and short stories. Born to a prominent Kuwaiti family, Laila al-Othman made her writing debut in a local newspaper featuring her opinion about social and literary issues.
- A. H. Almaas is an author and spiritual teacher.
- Taibah Al-Ibrahim is writer credited with writing the first science fiction novel in Kuwait.
- Najma Idrees is a Kuwaiti poet, columnist and scholar.
- Fatimah Yousif al-Ali is a journalist and short story writer. A graduate in Arabic Literature from Cairo University, in 1971 she became the first Kuwaiti woman to write a novel.
- Hayat Alyaqout is a writer who founded Nashiri, the first Arabic nonprofit online publishing house, in Kuwait in 2003.