Hassan Blasim

  • Why Kahramana?

    A contributor to forthcoming sci-fi anthology Iraq+100 (Comma Press) reveals the meaning behind the title and implication of their story.

  • The European Mohammed and the Ignorance of the Educated

    The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winning author of The Iraqi Christ responds to the European refugee crisis.

  • PEN Atlas – One Year On

    PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis looks back at a year of dispatches from around the world, and looks forward to more cutting-edge literature, essays and articles in translation​ in 2013

  • PEN Atlas Q&A – Hassan Blasim, author of The Iraqi Christ

    ​PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis interviews Hassan Blasim about his new collection of short stories, ​The Iraqi Christ, ​winner of a 2012 Writers in Translation award; his experience of censorship; and the importance of films for his work

  • PEN Atlas Q&A – Hassan Blasim, author of The Iraqi Christ

    ​PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis interviews Hassan Blasim about his new collection of short stories, ​The Iraqi Christ, ​winner of a 2012 Writers in Translation award; his experience of censorship; and the importance of films for his work