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Ismail Fahd Ismail

Died in 2018

Ismail Fahd Ismail was born in 1940 in Basra, Iraq, where he taught in the fifties. Settled in Kuwait at the end of the sixties, he graduated from the country's Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. He published his first short story collection in 1965, then about thirty novels, tales, essays and plays, and received the State of Kuwait's encouragement prize. Regarded as the father of the Kuwaiti novel, he died in Kuwait on 25 September 2018.

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