Madman was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010 and won an English PEN Writers in Translation Award. After writing a story for Comma’s anthology Madinah in 2008, he was commissioned to write a full collection of shorts, The Madman of Freedom Square, which was translated by Jonathan Wright and published in English by Comma Press in 2009. Since then he has made numerous short films and documentaries for Finnish television, and co-founded the Web site His essays on cinema have previously been published in Cinema Booklets (Emirates Cultural Foundation). In 1999 he left Iraq, and traveled as an illegal immigrant through Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Hungary, before eventually settling in Finland in 2004. In 1998 he left Baghdad for Sulaymaniya (Iraqi Kurdistan), where he continued to make films, including the feature-length drama Wounded Camera, under the pseudonym Ouazad Osman, fearing for the safety of his family back in Baghdad under the Hussein dictatorship. There he made two short films- Gardenia (screenplay & director) and White Clay (screenplay)-which won the Academy’s Festival Award for Best Work in consecutive years.
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Born in Baghdad in 1973, he spent most of his childhood in Kirkuk, before moving back to Baghdad to study at the city’s Academy of Cinematic Arts. Hassan Blasim is a poet, filmmaker, and short-story writer.
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