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Omar El Akkad Wins Canadian Literature Award
etcanada.comOmar El Akkad, an Egyptian-Canadian author and journalist, the author of a story of the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child, has won Canada’s richest literary award.
El Akkad won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book What Strange Paradise on Monday night. The former Globe and Mail journalist received the honour at a nationally televised Toronto gala Monday night.
What Strange Paradise, published by McClelland & Stewart, is a novel about two children caught in the global refugee crisis. READ MORE: Rosamund Pike To Narrate Audiobook Of ‘The Eye of the World’ The story alternates between the perspectives of Amir, a Syrian boy who survives a shipwreck on an unnamed island, and Vänna, the local teenage girl who saves him E
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