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, […]
Copy: The National, December 2012 >> When English PEN – the worldwide literary network with a mission to “defend and promote free expression, and to remove barriers to literature” – announced their 2013 awards […]