Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad is an Egyptian-American-Canadian novelist and journalist, born in 1982, who worked as a staff reporter for The Globe and Mail. His novels include American War, a dystopian story set in a near-future America torn by war, and What Strange Paradise, which won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.