On November 8, 2021, El Akkad won the Giller Prize for What Strange Paradise. In 2021, El Akkad appeared on the podcast Storybound. In November 2019 BBC News listed American War on a list of the 100 most influential novels. The Globe and Mail called it "a masterful debut." The novel was named a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award, and won a Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. She wrote that "melodramatic" dialogue could be forgiven by the use of details that makes the fictional future "seem alarmingly real". It received positive reviews from critics The New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani compared it favourably to Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America. His first novel, American War, was published in 2017. He was most recently a correspondent for the western United States, where he covered Black Lives Matter. Career įor ten years he was a staff reporter for The Globe and Mail, where he covered the war in Afghanistan, military trials at Guantanamo Bay and the Arab Spring in Egypt. When he was 16 years old, he moved to Canada, completing high school in Montreal and university at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qatar. Omar El Akkad (born 1982) is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist, whose novel What Strange Paradise was the winner of the 2021 Giller Prize.
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