The National, April 2014 When the longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP) was announced last month, great play was made of the fact that of the three nominated books set in the Middle […]
Delighted to hear that Hassan Blasim’s The Iraqi Christ has become the first book written in Arabic to win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It’s richly deserved for both Blasim, the translator Jonathan Wright, and his UK […]
Great to see Hassan Blasim’s short story collection The Iraqi Christ on the longlist for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize . It seems like a long time since I caught up with him at Manchester Piccadilly, […]