Hassan Blasim

Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer.

[1] Blasim left Iraq in 2000 to escape persecution for his films,[2] including The Wounded Camera, filmed in the Kurdish area in northern Iraq and about the forced migration of Kurds by Saddam Hussein's regime.

His short story collection The Madman of Freedom Square was long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010.

[4] His book The Iraqi Christ, translated from Arabic to English by Jonathan Wright, was published by Comma Press in 2013.

[5] In 2014, he became the first ever Arabic writer to win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.