Omar Musa
Forfatter af Here Come the Dogs: A Novel
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Omar Musa was born on January 9,1984 in Australia. He is a poet and a rapper. He won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2009. He has released two solo hip hop records (The Massive EP and World Goes to Pieces), two self-published books (The Clocks and Parang) and vis mere a self-titled album with international hip hop group MoneyKat. His debut novel Here Come The Dogs was published in July 2014. Musa has combined hip hop music and poetry throughout his career. He was runner up in the 2008 Australian Poetry Slam, before winning in 2009 at the Sydney Opera House. He went on to win the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2010. Omar Musa was a recipient of a 2015 Arts Residency from the University of Melbourne Asialink program. He will be featured at the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival 2015. His title Here Come the Dogs, made the ACT Book of the Year 2015 shortlist. This title also made the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlist in the fiction category. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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A fierce, angry book about the Western suburbs of Sydney, Here Come the Dogs is the story of three young men trying to find their way and stake out their identities in a society that's pretty ambivalent about them. Rooted in hip hop and clubbing, in sport, drugs and drinking, this is a brutal and intense look at life for second-generation Australians. The relentless masculinity of the book started to wear me down after a while, but Musa is a talented writer with plenty to say about communities largely ignored in Australian literary novels.… (mere)
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