Interview: award-winning author Ahmed Saadawi on the enemy of writing and the power of words.
Born in Baghdad in 1973, Ahmed Saadawi became the first Iraqi recipient of the International prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014, for his novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad. Set in Iraq in the years after the 2003 invasion, the book tells the story of a man made of limbs assembled from corpses in Baghdad. Once brought…
