Hassan Blasim [SEP] date of birth
Hassan Blasim
Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer. He writes in Arabic. He is a citizen of Finland.
Blasim went to Finland as a refugee in 2004 after getting in trouble when making the film "The Wounded Camera" in the Kurdish area in northern Iraq. He made four short films for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle. His short story collection "The Madman of Freedom Square" was long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010. His book
the Vostyachs" (Judith Landry; Italian), Dedalus
- Orhan Pamuk, "Silent House" (Robert Finn; Turkish), Faber
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez, "The Sound of Things Falling" (Anne McLean; Spanish), Bloomsbury
Winners, shortlists and longlists 2014.
- Shortlist
- Hassan Blasim, "The Iraqi Christ" (Arabic; trans. Jonathan Wright)
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, "A Man in Love" (book 2 of "My Struggle") (Norwegian