Kuwaiti author Mai Al Nakib has been nominated for the First Book Award at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival. Debut novelist and every overseas writer whose words are published in English for the first time are included in the award and the winner is chosen by readers who vote for their favorite author.
Mai Al Nakib was nominated because of her book The Hidden Light of Objects which is a collection of short stories and is available on [Amazon]
If you’ve read the book or just want to vote for her as encouragement, check out the Edinburgh International Book Festival website[Here]
Update: If you’d like to pick up the book locally it’s available for sale bookstores at the following campuses:
American University of Kuwait
American University of the Middle East
American College of the Middle East
Box Hill College Kuwait
Australian College of Kuwait
You can also contact Mr. Shabbir Hussain of Growmore Books if you run into any problems on +965-9786-7475
11 replies on “Kuwaiti Author Nominated for the First Book Award”
Mai not Mail 🙂 Typo
just fixed it
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Positivity!
Thanks for this! Just to let you know, the book is currently available through amazon.co.uk (it won’t be available on amazon.com in the US until Jan. 2015). In Kuwait, the book is available at most private university campus bookstores (including at AUK and others). For details, visit Facebook.com/maialnakib
Here’s the link to amazon.co.uk:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hidden-Light-Objects-Al-Nakib/dp/999219541X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404379570&sr=8-1&keywords=the+hidden+light+of+objects
Thanks will update the post
luckily I can buy it now on my Kindle and not wait till January, I’m so excited!
Mabrook Mai!
It’s really amazing to see a Kuwaiti doing such great things and changing the status-quo. I’m really looking forward to it being available in the US, let me know how I can get a copy before January. I’m in Oregon.
Trust local book sellers in Kuwait will stock up on Mai’s book.
mark, if you can get Mai to share excerpts of her short stories and commentaries on your blog will be beyond awesome! It will give your reader’s a flavor of her creative genius. Alternatively you could interview the author and post a YouTube video of it yourself
Mai rox. Simply loved the way the woman thunk in the after Iftar Arab Times op-ed piece- Violence in Kuwait: a Sideways Reflection. It was spot on. Her writings should be compulsory reading for anyone contemplating a college education in this country.