| Hasan Namir | |
| Birth Place: | Iraq |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Genre: | fiction, poetry & picture books |
Hasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian writer.
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.