![]() ![]() It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. Omar's debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. ![]() The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. FVRL is excited to welcome Omar El Akkad for a virtual author visit! Omar will be doing a reading from and discussing his novel, What Strange Paradi se. ![]()
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