Saud Alsanousi (Arabic:سعود السنعوسي) (born 1981) is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist.^[1] His debut novel The Prisoner of Mirrors (2010) won the Leila Othman Prize. In 2011, his short story The Bonsai and the Old Man won a competition organized by Al-Arabi magazine and BBC Arabic. His novel The Bamboo Stick was nominated for the 2013 Arabic Booker Prize.

Saud Alsanousi lives in Kuwait and writes for the Al-Qabas newspaper.