![]() ![]() ![]() In their citation, the jury, comprised of chair Zalika Reid-Benta, Megan Gail Coles, Joshua Whitehead, Malaysian novelist Tash Aw and American author Joshua Ferris, lauded the book for painting “a portrait of displacement and belonging that is at once unflinching and tender.” What Strange Paradise, the former Globe and Mail journalist’s second novel, examines the refugee crisis and the sociopolitical circumstances that have created it by telling the story of a young boy who washes up ashore on a Mediterranean island with a number of other refugees, and survives. “I am deeply grateful to everybody at Scotiabank and the Giller Prize for making this happen under such difficult circumstances.” ![]() It is the greatest honour of my career,” he told the audience at a live gala in Toronto on November 8. “For the past few months, I’ve had the incredible honour of being mentioned in the same breath as four outstanding authors, any one of whom could be standing up here. Omar El Akkad has won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel What Strange Paradise (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada).Īs he accepted the award, a shocked El Akkad said he “didn’t think I had a chance in hell of winning this, and so I’m making the speech up as I go along.” Omar El Akkad won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel What Strange Paradise. ![]()
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