Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in Providence, RI, and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. "The Hidden Light of Objects," published by Bloomsbury, is her first collection of short...
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Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in Providence, RI, and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. "The Hidden Light of Objects," published by Bloomsbury, is her first collection of short stories. It won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award in 2014, the first collection of short stories to do so. She lives in Kuwait and is currently writing her first novel. LIKE on Facebook: facebook.com/maialnakib
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