Quotes by Hassan Blasim

Hassan Blasim

“Secret migration” across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

Borders

Degradation

Secret

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for “house” or “table” or “lamp” are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

Children

Mother

Running

For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted to publish my books, and I wasn’t known in the Western world because of my political positions.

Book

Publishing House

Years

How can one talk in a classical language about a child who’s torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don’t talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

Children

Country

School

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in other words. I also used to describe at great length the way people in the area lived.

People

Play

Writing

I didn’t start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

Art

Busy

Iraq

I live in a small country in Europe – Finland – and I don’t speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

Country

Europe

Publishing House

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don’t understand.

People

Symbolism

Writing

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

Economic Sanctions

Iraq

Years

I’m not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

Want

World

Writing

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Agency

Army

Art

Blood

Book

Borders

Breathing

Busy

Careful

Children

Choices

Confusion

Country

Creative

Creativity

Degradation

Economic Sanctions

Essence

Europe

Facts

Feelings

Festivals

Girlfriend

Hypocrisy

Ifs

Imagination

Iran

Iraq

Margins

Mean

Media

Mother

Names

News

Office

People

Play

Political

Publishing House

Reality

Rights

Running

School

Secret

Silence

Soccer

Son

Stories

Suffering

Symbolism

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Quotes by Hassan Blasim

Hassan Blasim

“Secret migration” across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted to publish my books, and I wasn’t known in the Western world because of my political positions.

How can one talk in a classical language about a child who’s torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don’t talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in other words. I also used to describe at great length the way people in the area lived.

I didn’t start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

I live in a small country in Europe – Finland – and I don’t speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don’t understand.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

I’m not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

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