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Ismail Fahd Ismail, Kuwaiti writer and novelist, full-time since 1985. Born in 1940. He received a BA in literature and criticism from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts - State of Kuwait. He worked in the field of teaching and managing educational aids, and he ran an art production company. The novelist Ismail Fahd Ismail is considered the true founder of the art of the novel in Kuwait, as he represents one of the Arab novelists considered in the sky of the art of the novel. Ismail Al-Fahd presented his first novel “The Sky Was Blue” in 1970, and at that time the well-known Arab writer, Professor Salah Abdel-Sabour, said about him in his introduction to the novel: The novel was a great surprise to me, as this novel is new as I imagine. Twentieth century novel. Coming from the far east of the Arab world, where there are no traditions for the art of the novel, and where poetry still retains the greatest place. And the secret of my astonishment was not only that, but perhaps that did not surprise me until after the novel itself surprised me with its precise contemporary artistic construction, and the extent of slander, love, violence, cruelty, and the thought that permeates all within it. . His sponsorship of a large number of short story and novel writers, and his embrace of creative literary talents, have become a remarkable presence on the Kuwaiti and Arab arena. Among his works: The Dark Spot Stories (1965). The Sky Was Blue (1970) novel. Light Swamps (1971). The rope novel (1972). The Other Banks (1973) novel. Cages and Common Language Stories (1974). Incident File 67 novels (1975).