This Queanbeyan author just bagged Australia's most prestigious literary award
Miles-Franklin winning author Omar Musa 'blown away' by win.
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Six years, 21 drafts earn hip-hop poet top book prize
Author and hip-hop artist Omar Musa moved to Borneo to write his second novel Fierceland, which has taken out Australia's premier literary award.
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The epic novel runs amok in Omar Musa’s Fierceland
Omar Musa’s new book, Fierceland, ranges across five distinct geographies and covers a period of some 170 years. It is told from at least ten perspectives and encompasses prose, poetry and visual art. It is, in every way, an epic endeavour.
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