Muslim drag performer Amrou Al-Kadhi has won a Society Of Authors award and a share of the event’s £100,000 prize money. They secured the Somerset Maugham Award for the book Unicorn: The Memoir Of A Muslim Drag Queen, about their journey to self-acceptance.
Al-Kadhi – who uses the pronouns they/them – co-founded the drag troupe Denim and has written for forthcoming Apple series Little America, as well as for BBC America’s The Watch.
The Somerset Maugham Award celebrates published pieces by writers under 30, to enable them to enrich their work by gaining experience of foreign countries.
This year’s judges included novelist Nadifa Mohamed, playwright Barney Norris and author Ian Thomson. Ms Mohamed said: “A wild and untamed memoir that is
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