His work earned Canadas National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. Omar El Akkad wins the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel What Strange Paradise at a gala in Toronto Monday Nov.
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Omar El Akkad shortlisted for his novel What Strange Paradise arrives on the red carpet for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize in Toronto Monday Nov. His debut novel American War was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languagesIt won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award the Oregon Book Award for fiction and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. 1 day agoThe opening line of Omar El Akkads new novel What Strange Paradise flashes an image from the year 2015 before the minds eyeIt is an image that brings the plight of migrant refugees.
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