“For Anglophone fans, Blasim will be at the Ilkley Literature Festival on October 14 at 7:30 p.m. to talk about the forthcoming collection he’s edited, ‘Iraq + 100’.”
Iraq
In Books: Jewish Exodus from Iraq Revisited
“A guiding thread came unexpectedly from my mother, who turned out to have had a Jewish childhood friend named Evelyn.”
First Kurdish Novel Published in English? ‘It Is Unfortunate That We Still Talk About This’
“That’s when Ali got a surprising $25,000 advance for his ‘Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination,’ which Abdulrahman has now translated into English as ‘I Stared at the Night of the City.'”
Iraqi Poet Dunya Mikhail on Censorship in the US, Censorship in Iraq
“Nobody knows where the red line is any more.”
France’s ‘Prix de la Littérature Arabe’ to Translation of Inaam Kachachi’s ‘Tashaari’
The jury also gave a 5,000€ special mention to Reda Dalil’s 2016 novel “Best-seller.”
Short-story Collection by Hassan Blasim on Finalist’s List for Finnish Prize
“The winner will be take home a ‘golden’ library card and €1,000.”
One Sami Michael Novel Delisted from Israel’s HS Reading List, Another Banned
Both “A Trumpet in the Wadi” and “Refuge” are available in English translation.
On the 90th Birthday of Sami Michael, an Iraqi-Jewish Writer in Israel
“In 1948, due to his political activity, the Iraqi Court issued a warrant for Sami’s arrest, at which point his father had him smuggled to Iran. In 1949, Sami left Iran for Israel.”
‘Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems’
Where does “star-shaken” come from, and why has the sea become open?
Why Iraqi Novelist Ali Bader Shifted Women’s Liberation to the Center of His Work
His interest shifted from the mechanisms of political reform to a social revolution. Women’s liberation, he said, “is at the heart” of this.
Digital Hats, Analog Ambitions: Staging Hassan Blasim
“The open war that ‘The Digital Hats Game’ hackers are fighting is both one of endless and borderless possibilities and one where they also expose themselves to uninvited invasions.”
‘Night and the Desert Know Me’: Visual Artists Respond to Iraqi Poems
One of the most discomfiting images in the “Night and the Desert Know Me” installation at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C., is Michael Platt’s “Just Outside My Window #1.”
