Yasmine Seale, Paulo Lemos Horta, Paulo Lemos Horta, Omar El Akkad, Robert Irwin. El Akkad will be in residence doing readings. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at or visit . The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights. Writers & Books announces American War by Omar El Akkad as the selection for the 2019 Rochester Reads program. OMAR EL AKKAD is available for select speaking engagements. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, NPR, and Esquire, and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Portland-based writer Omar El Akkads latest work, What Strange Paradise, is a beautiful, angry novel about the migrant A woman who turns into a deer at night. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages.
His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ, and many other newspapers and magazines. His work earned Canada's National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. He has reported from Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and many other locations around the world. Alli: American War was a 2018 CBC Canada Reads Selection, A Globe and Mail Best Book, on several most anticipated lists, Winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer.
OMAR EL AKKAD is an author and a journalist.
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