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- Omar El Akkad (born ) is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist, whose novel What Strange Paradise was the winner of the Giller Prize.
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Omar El Akkad reflects on his writing journey
In November 2021, Queen’s graduate Omar El Akkad took home the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel What Strange Paradise.
It’s been a long journey for El Akkad, ArtSci ’05, born in Egypt and moved to Canada at sixteen. He fondly looks back on the time he spent at Queen’s—most of which he spent working at The Journal and honing his skills in Carolyn Smart’s creative writing classes.
“Queen’s was probably the defining stretch of my life leading up to the work I do now, just not in the way I thought it would be,” El Akkad said in an interview.
El Akkad majored in computer science—something he claimed to have known very little about at the time of his studies. He struggled and admitted to skipping class but explained how stumbling upon an opportunity at The Journal helped turn things around.
“I thought, ‘Well, the only thing I’m halfway good at is writing, maybe these people will let me write?’ So I went and interviewed for the