Hussain Al Mutawaa (Arabic: حسين المطوع) is a Kuwaiti writer, poet, literary critic and a photographer who was born in 1989.
In 2019, his short story "I Dream of Being a Cement Mixer" won Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Child Literature and which was translated into English, French, Ukrainian and Italian.
[2] Before turning to stories and novels, Al Mutawaa started his literary career in literature as a poet in 2009.
He has a bachelor's degree in Literature and Criticism from the Arabic Language College with a Minor in philosophy from University of Kuwait.
Then, in 2018, he published the short story "I Dream of Being a Cement Mixer", which won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2019 for the category Children's Literature and was translated into many languages including English, French, and Italian.