Mohammed Hasan Alwan

{{short description|Saudi Arabian novelist (born 1979)}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Mohammed Hasan Alwan

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1979|8|27}}

| birth_place = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

| nationality = Saudi Arabian

| genre = Novels, short stories

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Mohammed Hasan Alwan ({{Langx|ar|محمد حسن علوان}}; born 27 August 1979) is a Saudi Arabian novelist and the Chief Executive Officer of the Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission affiliated with the Ministry of Culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, appointed in 2020. He was born in Riyadh and studied Computer Information Systems at King Saud University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 2002. He also obtained an MBA from the University of Portland, Oregon in 2008 and Ph.D from Carleton University, Ottawa in 2016.{{cite web |url=http://alalwan.com/en/biography/ |title=Biography |work=AlAlwan.com |accessdate=4 July 2017}}

Alwan is the third Saudi novelist to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (often referred to as the Arabic Booker) in 2017, following novelists Abdo Khal in 2010 and Raja'a Alem in 2011.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-19 |title=Mohammed Hasan Alwan |url=https://saudipedia.com/en/article/2188/figures/officials/mohammed-hasan-alwan |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=Saudipedia |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Contributors - Mohammed Hasan Alwan |url=http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/511/mohammed-hasan-alwan/ |accessdate=4 July 2017 |website=Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature}}

Alwan has published five novels to date: Saqf Elkefaya (2002), Sophia (2004), Touq Altahara (2007), "Al-Qundus" (2011), and "Mouton Sageer" (2016). His work has appeared in translation in Banipal magazine ("Blonde Grass" and "Statistics", translated by Ali Azeriah); in The Guardian ("Oil Field", translated by Peter Clark);{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/18/oil-field-mohammed-hasan-alwan-story |title=Oil Field by Mohammed Hasan Alwan, translated by Peter Clark |newspaper=The Guardian |date=18 April 2011 |accessdate=4 July 2017}} and in Words Without Borders ("Mukhtar", translated by William M. Hutchins).{{cite web |url=http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/mukhtar |first=Mohammed Hasan |last=Alwan |title=Mukhtar |work=wordswithoutborders.org |date=August 2011 |accessdate=4 July 2017}}

His work was published in the Beirut39 anthology (Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World, edited by Samuel Shimon) and in the IPAF Nadwa anthology (Emerging Arab Voices, edited by Peter Clark).