Phil Klay served in the Marines and was deployed to Iraq. His view of violence is unmistakable – precisely because he knows how to use the imagination.
For the American author Phil Klay, his experiences in Iraq are the starting point for thinking about violence as a global phenomenon. Recording from 2014.
Phil Klay’s first book was published in 2014 under the sober-sounding title “Redeployment”. With the dozen stories it contains, the 31-year-old joins the ranks of American veterans who are trying to come to terms with traumatic war experiences – by turning them into literature.