Emirati children writer
Lateefa Buti (Arabic: ) is a Kuwaiti writer. She has published many books for children including "Hatless", which won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2017 in the children's literature category, and was translated into English by Nancy Roberts.
Career.
Lateefa Buti has published two short story collections including "The Mermaid" and "My Country, Ininkayo". In 2003, she started writing books for children. Buti has contributed stories to the Kuwaiti magazine "Al Arabi Al Sagheer" including "Salem and Salma" and "My City Kuwait". Also, she has written some cultural heritage stories and folklore for Al Jazeera Children's Channel and Al Baraem Channel. Buti won several awards, including the first place award for Children's Theater Writing Competition at the level of the State of Kuwait, the second place in the Children's Theater Writing Competition at the level of the Arab world which was held by the National Council for Culture, Arts, and Literature in Kuwait in 2013, and won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for category of Children's Literature for her book "Hatless" in 2017. She is the founder of "Dar al-Ruslan" for publishing which is the first Kuwaiti publishing house for children's book.
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