Michael Mohammed Ahmad
ABOUT
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Dr Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the Founding Director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and Editor of the critically acclaimed anthology After Australia. Mohammed’s debut novel, The Tribe, won The Sydney Morning Herald’s 2015 Best Young Novelists Award. His second novel, The Lebs, won the 2019 NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. His third novel, The Other Half of You, won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Prize. His novel, Bugger, was published last year. Mohammed received his PhD in Creative Arts from Western Sydney University in 2017.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.