| farah ashraf |
A Kuwaiti writer, born in 1943. Her father was a poet and had some interests and literary contributions, among which was the opening of a literary salon, which helped her to follow the path of literature with much support and readiness. She began publishing in local newspapers since 1965 on literary and social issues, and since then it has been committed to some weekly and daily angles in the local and Arab press, and still is. She prepared and presented a number of literary and social programs in the media/radio and television. (The Woman and the Cat) was her first novel in 1985. She was sentenced to two months in prison in 2000 along with another Kuwaiti woman, the writer Alia Shuaib, and a professor of moral philosophy at Kuwait University, on charges of publishing two books containing insulting expressions of religion and insulting public modesty, according to the court's opinion. In 2004, the writer allocated a literary award under the name "Laila Al-Othman Prize for Youth Creativity in Story and Fiction". She has six children: 4 daughters and two sons.
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