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Hasan Namir

Hasan Namir

Iraqi-Canadian writer (born 1987)

Hasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian writer.

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Born in Iraq in 1987, Namir moved to Canada with his family at age 11.[1] He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University, and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2] God in Pink, a novel about a gay man living in Baghdad during the Iraq War, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2015.[3] The book won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.[4] In 2019, he was named one of "19 Canadian writers to watch in 2019" by the CBC.[5]

His poetry book War / Torn was released on April 10, 2019,[6] and was shortlisted for a Stonewall Book Award in 2020.[7]

His work has also been featured on Huffington Post, Shaw TV, Airbnb, in the film God in Pink: A Documentary, Breakfast Television Toronto, CTV Morning Live Saskatoon.

He is also the author of children’s book The Name I Call Myself (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), and the poetry collection Umbilical Cord (Book*Hug Press, 2021). His latest picture book, Banana Dream (Neal Pooks, 2023) is about a young boy who dreams about the taste of bananas, and was inspired by Namir’s own childhood.

References

  1. [1]
    "Hasan Namir on God In Pink, His Gay Muslim Novel Set In Iraq". Out, December 17, 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Hasan Namir". Ryerson University Library and Archives.
  3. [3]
    "Review: Under the Udala Trees, God in Pink and Dirty River offer different ways of being queer in the face of a single story". The Globe and Mail, November 20, 2015.
  4. [4]
    "God in Pink". CBC Books. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  5. [5]
    CBC Books (July 1, 2019). "19 Canadian writers to watch in 2019". CBC. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  6. [6]
    "20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.
  7. [7]
    "Stonewall Book Awards List". American Library Association. 9 September 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
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