Hasan Namir
Hasan Namir (born 1987) is an Iraqi-Canadian writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He moved to Canada at age 11 and later graduated from Simon Fraser University.
Namir writes fiction, poetry, and children’s books. His novel God in Pink, about a gay man in Baghdad during the Iraq War, was published in 2015 and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction in 2016. In 2019, the CBC named him one of 19 Canadian writers to watch. His poetry collection War / Torn came out in 2019 and was shortlisted for a Stonewall Book Award in 2020.
His work has appeared in Media outlets and is featured in the documentary God in Pink. He is the author of The Name I Call Myself, a children’s book published in 2020, and the poetry collection Umbilical Cord, published in 2021. His picture book Banana Dream, published in 2023, tells the story of a boy who dreams about the taste of bananas and is inspired by Namir’s own childhood.
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