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, […]
The National, February 2014 It’s hard to “make it” in the literary world. Most authors would probably consider it a big achievement to get published at all, let alone have a seven-book, 15 year-career in […]
The National, February 2014 When the shortlist for the International Prize For Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was announced yesterday, it was tempting to suggest the literary scene in the Arab world is not only healthy, but […]
The National, February 2014 The award-winning Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa is the obvious favourite for the seventh International Prize For Arabic Fiction, as judges announced an intriguing shortlist on Monday featuring everything from a Moroccan […]
The Observer, February 2014 Playing your unborn child Mozart will increase its intelligence. So might feeding it fish oil. Physical exercise, nicotine, coffee, Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, meditation… all have been heralded as pathways to […]