Hussain Al-Moutawaa
Biography
Born in 1989, Kuwaiti writer and photographer Hussain Al-Moutawaa received his BA in Literature and Criticism from the College of Arabic Language, University of Kuwait, with a minor in Philosophy. He started his literary career as a poet in 2009 and since then has participated in many poetry events and festivals. In 2015 he started writing short stories and took first place in the category of University Poets and Storytellers at the University of Kuwait. Al-Moutawaa subsequently devoted himself to writing novels and published his first novel in late 2017 Turab and in 2018 the children's novel I Dream of Being A Concrete Mixer, which received the Sheikh Zayed Book Prize in 2019. At the end of 2019 he published his second children's book Deep toward my heart.
Last Released
I WANT TO BE A CONCRETE MIXER
An exciting story about the power of friendship, how to find your place in the world, achieve your dreams and stay true to yourself. Haddam is a little demolition digger growing up in a loving family. His parents go to work every day demolishing buildings with their big wrecking balls. But soft-hearted Haddam doesn't always want to destroy. He would much rather build things. He dreams of being a cement mixer.
But there's a problem: when Haddam laughs or cries, his wrecking ball swings and destroys everything around him. His gentle heart cannot beat a beat without leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
Translated from Arabic by Suleman Taufiq
