Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer who lives in Finland. He writes in Arabic. 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 Iraqi Christ, translated from Arabic to English by Jonathan Wright, was awarded with the Writers in Translation Award 2012 by English Pen. It was published by Comma Press in 2013, and long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014. A selection of his stories was published as The Corpse Exhibition by Penguin US in 2014.In 2014, he became the first ever Arabic writer to be shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.. }
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- Hassan_Blasim abstract "Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer who lives in Finland. He writes in Arabic. 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 Iraqi Christ, translated from Arabic to English by Jonathan Wright, was awarded with the Writers in Translation Award 2012 by English Pen. It was published by Comma Press in 2013, and long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014. A selection of his stories was published as The Corpse Exhibition by Penguin US in 2014.In 2014, he became the first ever Arabic writer to be shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.".