Fireside Chat with TL artist-in-residence, Omar El Akkad
Join TL Insider for this intimate Fireside Chat with Giller Prize winner and our artist-in-residence, Omar El Akkad, as we discuss his career, the evolution of his artistic practice and the future of writing in Canada.
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His debut novel, American War, was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Omar El Akkad has been named the winner of the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, What Strange Paradise.
Of the winning book, the jury wrote:
"Amid all the anger and confusion surrounding the global refugee crisis, Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise paints a portrait of displacement and belonging that is at once unflinching and tender. In examining the confluence of war, migration and a sense of settlement, it raises questions of indifference and powerlessness and, ultimately, offers clues as to how we might reach out empathetically in a divided world.”
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