page_title: Omar Musa
hierarchical_section_title: Omar Musa
caption_attribution_description: English: Omar Musa reads to an Audience at the Jaipur Literature Festival event at Federation Square in Melbourne as part of the broader Asia TOPA festival.
context_page_description: Omar bin Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author, poet and rapper from Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He has released three solo hip hop records and three books of poetry. His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was published in 2014. Here Come the Dogs was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015.
context_section_description: Omar bin Musa (born 9 January 1984) is a Malaysian-Australian author, poet and rapper from Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He has released three solo hip hop records (including Since Ali Died) and three books of poetry. His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was published in 2014. Here Come the Dogs was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award  and Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015.
caption: Omar Musa at Jaipur Literature Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne 2017
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