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Omar el akkad novels5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Omar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. She served as an editorial advisory board member for PMLA from 2010-12, as a Humanities Advisor for the Fetzer Institute from 2011-13, and as a 2018 advisor for the John S. She has authored several academic books, including, “Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women” (Rutgers 1997 ebook, 2011). ![]() Past novels include: “The Loneliness of Angels” (Peepal Tree 2010) winner of the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award, for Best Fiction 2010 “The Scorpion’s Claw” (Peepal Tree Press 2005) and “Spirit of Haiti” (Mango 2003), shortlisted in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region of the Commonwealth Prize, 2004. She is the author of “What Storm, What Thunder,” a novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake (Harper Collins Canada/Tin House USA 2021) which has been named a Best Book of Fall by TIME, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Good Housekeeping, Buzzfeed and more. Chancy is a Guggenheim Fellow and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. Their empathy is something remarkable and hopeful to witness. These are not easy subjects – disasters natural and man-made – and Myriam and Omar speak with uncommon grace and empathy about the people living through the very real-world crises depicted in their fiction. ![]()
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