Luay Hamza Abbas (born 1965) is an Iraqi writer. He now teaches

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at Basra University. Abbas has published several volumes of short stories and one novel. In 2010, the

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awarded a grant to academic and translator Yasmeen Hanoosh to translate Abbas' short story collection ''Closing His Eyes'' (2008).NEA announcement of translation grant
The title story of this volume was translated earlier in Banipal 27 and also won the 2006 Kikah Best Short Story Award in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abbas, Luay Hamza Writers from Basra Living people 1965 births University of Basrah alumni Iraqi literary critics Iraqi short story writers 20th-century Iraqi novelists 21st-century Iraqi novelists