Hassan Blasim
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Hassan Blasim is an Iraq
i-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 Kurd
ish area in northern Iraq. He made four short films for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle. His short story collection Madman of Freedom Square is on the long list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
in 2010.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i-born film director and writer who lives in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. 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 Kurd
Kürd
Kürd or Kyurd or Kyurt may refer to:*Kürd Eldarbəyli, Azerbaijan*Kürd Mahrızlı, Azerbaijan*Kürd, Goychay, Azerbaijan*Kürd, Jalilabad, Azerbaijan*Kürd, Qabala, Azerbaijan*Qurdbayram, Azerbaijan...
ish area in northern Iraq. He made four short films for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle. His short story collection Madman of Freedom Square is on the long list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the financial support...
in 2010.
Filmography
- The Wounded Camera
- Uneton, 2006
- Luottamuksen arvoinen, 2007
- Elämä nopea kuin nauru, 2007
- Juuret, 2008
Books
- Madman of Freedom Square, (2009)Comma Press, Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan WrightJonathan Wright (translator)Jonathan Wright is a British journalist and literary translator. He studied Arabic, Turkish and Islamic civilization at St John's College, Oxford. He joined the Reuters news agency in 1980 as a correspondent, and has been based in the Middle East for most of the last three decades...
- Diving into Existing’ (2007) correspondence and dairies in collaboration with Adnan al-Mubarak.
- Wounded Camera’ (2007) Writings on cinema.
- The Shia’s Poisoned Child’ (2008) story collection.
- Poetic Cinema (2006) collection of articles. Ed. Salah Sarmini, in: Cinema Booklets: Series of Publications for the Emirates Film Competition. Abu Dhabi: Emirates Cultural Foundation
- Short Films (2005) collection of articles in: Cinema Booklets: Series of Publications for the Emirates Film Competition. Ed. S. Sarmini. Abu Dhabi: Emirates Cultural Foundation.
- The Shia’s Poisoned Child, 2008, short stories