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Muhammad Hassan Alwan is a Saudi novelist and journalist. CEO of the Literature, Publishing and Translation Authority. His life was born in Riyadh, August 27, 1979. He has published five novels, The Ceiling of Sufficiency (2002), Sophia (2004), The Ring of Purity (2007), The Beaver (2011), A Small Death (2016), and one book: Leaving, its theories and factors affecting it (2014). He wrote a weekly article for six years in the Saudi newspapers Al Watan and Al Sharq. The New York Times and the British Guardian published his articles and short stories. He was chosen in (2010) among the 39 best Arab writers under the age of forty, and his name was included in the Ontology (Beirut 39). In 2013, his novel The Beaver was shortlisted in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, The Arab Booker, among 133 novels participating in the Arab world. In 2015, the French version of his novel The Beaver won the prize of the Arab World Institute in Paris as the best Arabic novel translated into French in 2015. His novel (A Small Death) won the Arab Booker Prize for the year 2017. Death_Small