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
Read MorePEN 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
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Following on from her piece for the English PEN magazine, Samar Yazbek describes the dangerous, often fatal struggle of capturing the truth of the Syrian revolution
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