Omar Sakr

Omar Sakr is an award-winning Arab Australian poet, born of Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. The Lost Arabs (University of Queensland Press, 2019), won the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the John Bray Poetry Award, and the Colin Roderick Award. Omar's poetry has been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish, in numerous journals and anthologies. Omar has performed his work nationally and internationally. He lives...See more

Omar Sakr is an award-winning Arab Australian poet, born of Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. The Lost Arabs (University of Queensland Press, 2019), won the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the John Bray Poetry Award, and the Colin Roderick Award. Omar's poetry has been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish, in numerous journals and anthologies. Omar has performed his work nationally and internationally. He lives in Sydney. Son of Sin is his first novel. See less