Hassan Blasim [ Iraq ]
Biography
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Bibliography
The Madman of Freedom Square
Comma Press
Manchester, 2009
[Ü: Jonathan Wright]
was born 1973 in Bagdad and studied at the University of Film Arts, where he twice won the festival prize. In 2004 he moved to Finland and since then shoots documentaries for Finnish television. His most recent book of short stories »The Madman of Freedom Square« was published in 2009. He writes his own blog, and together with others maintains the website iraqstory.com, on which the short stories and literary texts of Iraqi writers are published.
