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SUMMARY:The Madman of Freedom Square: Hassan Blasim and Jonathan Wright in Conversation With Amir Ahmadi Arian and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
DESCRIPTION:Hassan Blasim (b. 1973) is an Iraqi writer\, poet\, and filmmaker who is currently living in Helsinki\, Finland. Born in Baghdad\, he studied at the city’s Academy of Cinematic Arts where two of his screenplays won the Academy’s Festival Prize for Best Work. In 1998 he was advised by his tutors to leave Baghdad\, since the political and critical nature of his films was drawing attention from Saddam’s informants at the Academy. After fleeing and travelling through Europe as a refugee\, he settled in Finland in 2004. His debut collection of short stories\, The Madman of Freedom Square (Comma Press\, 2009)\, was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010. His second collection\, The Iraqi Christ (Comma Press\, 2013)\, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014.  Blasim’s writing has been translated into over 20 languages to date. He has been described by the Guardian as “perhaps the greatest writer of Arab fiction alive”. His debut novel\, Allah99\, was published in 2020. \nJonathan Wright studied Arabic\, Turkish\, and Islamic history at St. John’s College\, Oxford University. Between 1980 and 2009 he worked for Reuters news agency\, mainly in the Middle East. He began literary translation in 2008 and has since translated about a dozen novels\, as well as collections of short stories\, essays\, and poetry. He won the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation twice\, for  The Bamboo Stalk  by Kuwaiti writer Saud al-Sanoussi and  Azazeel  by Egyptian writer Youssef Ziedan\, as well as the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014 for his translation of  The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim. His latest literary translations include Jokes for the Gunmen\, short stories by Mazen Maarouf\, and  Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi\, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2018. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi\, Director of Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame\, and Amir Ahmadi Arian\, Visiting faculty of City College\, New York. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Archives of the Disappeared Research Seminar at the University of Cambridge and the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.
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