The Most Famous
WRITERS from Kuwait
This page contains a list of the greatest Kuwaiti Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 1 of which were born in Kuwait. This makes Kuwait the birth place of the 156th most number of Writers behind Dominican Republic, and Djibouti.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kuwaiti Writers of all time. This list of famous Kuwaiti Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Susan Abulhawa (b. 1970)
With an HPI of 45.96, Susan Abulhawa is the most famous Kuwaiti Writer. Her biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Susan Abulhawa (Arabic: سوزان أبو الهوى; born 3 June 1970) is a Palestinian-American scientist, writer, and activist. Her first novel, Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies. The sales and reach of her debut novel made Abulhawa the most widely read Palestinian author of all time. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015), was translated in 19 languages. Against the Loveless World, her third novel, was released in August 2020, also to critical acclaim. She is a human rights activist and animal rights advocate, and founded the children's organization Playgrounds for Palestine.
2. Huzama Habayeb (b. 1965)
With an HPI of 44.55, Huzama Habayeb is the 2nd most famous Kuwaiti Writer. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Huzama Habayeb (Arabic: ْحُزَامَة حَبَايِب ()) is a Palestinian novelist, storyteller, columnist, translator, and poet who has won multiple awards such as the Mahmoud Seif Eddin Al-Erani Award for Short Stories, Jerusalem Festival of Youth Innovation in Short Stories, and Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Upon graduating from Kuwait University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English language and Literature, she pursued careers in journalism, teaching, and translation before she eventually started to write professionally as a published author. She is a member of both the Jordanian Writers Association and the Arab Writers Federation.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Kuwaiti writers born between 1965 and 1970. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kuwaiti writers include Susan Abulhawa, and Huzama Habayeb. As of April 2024, 1 new Kuwaiti writers have been added to Pantheon including Huzama Habayeb.
