نبذات عمر صقر

عمر صقر شاعر وكاتب ولد في غرب سيدني لأبوين مسلمين لبنانيين وأتراك. وهو مؤلف كتاب This Wild Houses (Cordite Books ، 2017) ، و The Lost Arab (مطبعة جامعة كوينزلاند ، 2019) ، الذي فاز بجائزة رئيس الوزراء الأدبية لعام 2020. وهو أول مسلم عربي-أسترالي يفوز بهذه الجائزة المرموقة. كما تم ترشيح العرب المفقودين لجائزة جوديث رايت كالانث ، وجائزة جون براي للشعر ، وجائزة نيو ساوث ويلز للأدب متعدد الثقافات ، وجائزة كولين رودريك ؛ تم إصداره في الولايات المتحدة وفي جميع أنحاء العالم من خلال Andrews McMeel Universal. ستصدر روايته الأولى ، ابن الخطيئة (Affirm Press) في مارس 2022.

Omar Sakr is a contemporary Arab Australian poet, novelist and essayist. Career Sakr has been a published poet since 2014, with over 80 poems appearing in literary journals including Meanjin, Overland and other publications. His first book of poetry These Wild Houses was published in 2017 by Cordite Books.In 2020, he was the first Arab-Australian Muslim to be shortlisted for and then win the prestigious Prime Minister's Literary Award for poetry for his book The Lost Arabs. The judging panel...

Omar Sakr is a poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books, 2017), and The Lost Arabs (University of Queensland Press, 2019), which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award. He is the first Arab-Australian Muslim to win this prestigious award. The Lost Arabs was also shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award, and the Colin Roderick Award; it has been released in the US and worldwide through Andrews McMeel Universal. His debut novel, Son of Sin (Affirm Press), is forthcoming in March 2022.In 2019, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry, and in 2020,...