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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
So much of Australia’s identity is based around mateship and manhood. But how have these ideas helped and harmed generations of Australians? In what ways might they be outdated and how are they changing? Across poetry, fiction, memoir, journalism and activism, these writers explore – and explode – preconceptions about Australian masculinity.
Panel: Lech Blaine, Nevo Zisin, Omar Sakr
Chair: Benjamin Law
#Artist
Omar Sakr
Omar Sakr is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections, These Wild Houses (Cordite Books) and The Lost Arabs (UQP). The Lost Arabs won the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the Colin Roderick Award. Omar is a widely published essayist and editor whose work has been translated into Arabic and Spanish. Born to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants in Western Sydney, he lives there still. Son of Sin is his first novel.
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