Why Kahramana?
A contributor to forthcoming sci-fi anthology Iraq+100 (Comma Press) reveals the meaning behind the title and implication of their story.
Hassan Blasim
Hassan Blasim – PEN Transmissions
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 cinema for his work
