Omar Musa
Omar Musa is an acclaimed author, poet and visual artist from Queanbeyan, Australia, whose work spans novels, poetry, hip-hop and theatre. Fierceland is his latest novel.
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Omar Musa is an acclaimed author, poet and visual artist from Queanbeyan, Australia, whose work spans novels, poetry, hip-hop and theatre. Fierceland is his latest novel.
BottomOmar Musa is an author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has written two novels (including Fierceland), three books of poetry, five hip-hop records, and two plays, Since Ali Died and The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio). His work has appeared in The Best Australian Stories and Best of Australian Poems.
His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015.
He has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcuts, including his most recent collection All My Memories Are Mistranslations.
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