Josef Hammer

Josef Hammer writes about who is permitted to speak.

For forty years he has worked on a single subject: honour, silence and the machinery that turns love into obedience. He has lived in London for many years.

Caging Honour is a novel about an honour killing and about the part the newspapers never print. Everyone knew who killed Aisha. Nobody knew the beginning.

Unlicensed Voice is a dystopian novel set in a city where every voice is registered and saying your own name is a crime.

Nation, Religion and Nationalism follows three familiar words back to the payslip and the employment contract, and asks who collects.

His first novella appeared in 1997. He has written poetry, songs and essays alongside the fiction, and the concerns have never changed: what a family will do to keep its papers in order, what a state will do to keep a street quiet, and what it costs the first person who refuses.

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