Safdar Ahmed
ABOUT
Safdar Ahmed
Safdar Ahmed is an award-winning artist, writer, musician, and cultural worker. His graphic novel, Still Alive, won the Multicultural NSW Award and was named Book of the Year in the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Still Alive also won the 2022 Eve Pownall Award and a Gold Ledger in the 2022 Comic Arts Awards of Australia. Safdar is a Founding Member of the Refugee Art Project and a member of eleven, a collective of contemporary Muslim Australian artists, curators, and writers.
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.