Photo Credit: Quinn Ryder

Omar Musa

Photo Credit: Quinn Ryder

Omar Musa

Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), four hip-hop records, and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney at the Sydney Opera House. His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. His one-man play, Since Ali Died, won Best Cabaret Show at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2018. He has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcut prints.

Omar Musa is published by Penguin Australia

Photo Credit: Quinn Ryder

What to read

Killernova by Omar Musa, 2022
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