Nawzat Shamdin is an Iraqi Kurdish writer and journalist who was born and lived for forty years in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, until he was forced to seek refuge outside of Iraq in February of 2014. His novels include Half the Moon and The Little Aga.
‘I remain what I have always been, a human being first, and then an Iraqi. And then I am a writer.’
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