Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up in Doha, Qatar until he moved to Canada with his family.
She is the author of the essay collections Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses, the latter of which won the 2018 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and made the Best Books of 2017 lists in the New York Times, Guardian, and Publisher’s Weekly. Passarello teaches creative writing at Oregon State University and appears weekly on the nationally-syndicated PRI radio variety show LiveWire!. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018, and has been translated into German, Italian, French, and Mandarin.
Our guest hosts for this special episode are Elena Passarello and Omar El Akkad, both of whom are previous Oregon Book Award winners themselves.Įlena Passarello is an actor, essayist, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. We’re also thrilled to share an interview with Molly Gloss, this year’s CES Wood Award recipient, and archival audio of treasured Oregon writer Barry Lopez, who hosted the Awards in 2006 and received the CES Wood Award in 2008.
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In this episode of The Archive Project, you’ll hear excerpts read by the winning authors themselves. Out-of-state judges determined the finalists and winners. This year, 173 books from 41 towns across Oregon were submitted. Since 1987, the Oregon Book Awards have celebrated the work of our state’s authors. Our 34th annual Oregon Book Awards is presented in this special, state-wide broadcast and podcast episode, with special thanks to our partners at Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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