Published: February 28, 2022
Revisiting ‘terrifying and traumatising’ moments from his own life, the poet’s debut novel Son of Sin explores a young man’s sexual awakening in a conservative migrant community
Omar Sakr’s foray into fiction began with him doing his own thing.
“One of the first pieces of advice I got from an older writer some years ago was don’t publish your first novel because it’s going to be autobiographical, you can’t help it,” he says. “But rather than not publish the first novel, rather than being afraid of the idea of autobiography, I just thought I would run toward it and really own it.”
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