Mohammed Hasan Alwan (Arabic: 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.

[2][3] Alwan has published five novels to date: Saqf Elkefaya (2002), Sophia (2004), Touq Altahara (2007), "Al-Qundus" (2011), and "Mouton Sageer" (2016).

[5] 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).

[8] In 2017, he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for A Small Death, a novel about Ibn Arabi.