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Hassan Blasim

About the author

Hassan Blasim is a film maker and author of The Madman of Freedom Square, listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Work from Iraq: A Child’s Beginning

We would wait at the side of the main road for the coffins to arrive. Bassim and I were eight. The war with Iran had entered its fourth year.


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