Omar Musa celebrates his 2026 Miles Franklin win for Fierceland
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Discover why the forests sing in Fierceland, Omar Musa's Miles Franklin Literary Award winning novel.
Poet, visual artist, hip-hop musician and author Omar Musa finds magic in Italian beads, vengeful ghosts and the sound of the Borneo forest in his award winning novel, Fierceland. The Miles Franklin judges described Fierceland as "a psychologically layered and storied reckoning with the world we have inherited."
In this bonus episode Claire Nichols congratulates Omar and revisits her earlier conversation with him about the writing of Fierceland. Omar explains the family connection to this story of palm oil, deforestation and language.
Omar's latest book is The Vape Lord of Queanbeyan.
He will also be a guest at the London Literature Festival curated by the pop star Dua Lipa.
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