Mona Al-Shammari

Mona Al-Shammari (born 1966) is a Kuwaiti novelist and writer. She studied theater and drama at Kuwait University. Her first short stories were published in the late 1980s. She won a prize from the Emirati Writers’ Union, in 1990. Her novels include No Music in Al Ahmadi, which was adapted for the screen, and The Maids of the Shrine that was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize.