‘I had a lot of self-loathing’: Omar Sakr on being queer, Arab, Muslim and Australian
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.”
The bisexual Turkish-Lebanese Muslim poet has explored the multiplicity of his identity in literary publications, anthologies and his own poetry collections: These Wild
