Sawad Hussain

Sawad Hussain is an Arabic translator and litterateur with an MA in Modern Arabic Literature from SOAS. In 2019 she won the Arablit Short Story prize and an English PEN grant to translate one of Najwa Bin Shatwan’s short story collections. Her recent translations include a Kuwaiti contemporary classic by IPAF winning Saud Alsanousi, Mama Hissa’s Mice.