#oma sakr

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“One of the first pieces of advice I got from an older writer some years ago was don’t publish your first novel because it’s going to be autobiographical, you can’t help it. But rather than not publish the first novel, rather than being afraid of the idea of autobiography, I just thought I would run toward it and really own it.” - Omar Sakr

Who is Omar Sakr?

• A bisexual Turkish-Lebanese Muslim poet and author.

• He has explored the multiplicity of his identity in literary publications, anthologies and his own poetry collections: These Wild Houses, and the Prime Minister’s Literary award-winning The Lost Arabs.

• His debut novel Son of Sin explores his experience growing up queer and Muslim in a broken family in western Sydney.

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