Omar Musa

Omar bin Musa
Omar Musa at Jaipur Literature Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne 2017
Background information
Born
Omar bin Musa

1984 (age 41–42)
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Genreship hop, slam poetry, spoken word
Occupationspoet, rapper, author, artist
Instrumentvocals
Years active2002–present
AwardVictorian Premier's Prize for Fiction
Websiteomarmusa.com.au

Omar bin Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author, poet, rapper, and visual artist from Queanbeyan, New South Wales. He has released four hip hop records, four books of poetry, and the novel Here Come the Dogs, which was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and the International Dublin Literary Award. Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. He released a second novel, Fierceland, in 2025.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.