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Omar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. He has reported from Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and many other locations around the world. His work earned Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ, and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. 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. 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. His latest novel is What Strange Paradise, which won the 2022 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.
The Future: Naomi Alderman
Douglas Stuart, in conversation with Omar El Akkad
2021 Oregon Book Awards
Madeline Miller, interviewed by Omar El Akkad
2020 Oregon Book Awards
Margaret Atwood in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad, Benjamin Percy, Lidia Yuknavitch
Reading Recommendations from Madeline Miller
Reading Recommendations from PBF Advisory Council
2019 Verselandia! Winners
2018 Oregon Book Awards Finalist: Fiction
2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipient Omar El Akkad
Books Submitted to the 2018 Oregon Book Awards
Announcing the 2017 Author Lineup for Portland Book Festival (formerly Wordstock)
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