(AFP) Born amid the horrors of war in Iraqi Kurdistan, Danish author Sara Omar now uses her voice to denounce violence inflicted on women in the name of reactionary Islam, a “calling” that has left her living under police protection.
“I broke the taboo. I talk about the things you are not supposed to talk about. If I don’t do this, who will?” the 34-year-old tells AFP in an interview in Copenhagen.
Her first novel “Dead Washer” sold more than 100,000 copies in Denmark when it was published in 2017, a literary feat in the country of 5.8 million where it was hailed as the “MeToo of Muslim women.”
It has since been translated into several languages, including Norwegian, Swedish and French.
