Joost Hiltermann

Joost Hiltermann is mainly a nonfiction writer who decided to try his hand at fictionalising a true story. He has been with the International Crisis Group for the past 23 years, and spent a decade before that at Human Rights Watch. During that time, he documented Saddam Hussein’s genocidal counter-insurgency Anfal campaign against Iraqi Kurds – the context of “The Resurrected”. Previously, he published two books and contributed articles to The New York Review of Books and London Review of Books, among others. He worked for the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq in the Israeli-occupied for five years in the 1980s.