Sara Omar (Kurdish: سارا عومه‌ر; born in Sulaymaniah, Kurdistan Region) is a Danish-Kurdish author, human rights activist and poet.

[citation needed] Because of the war, she had to flee Kurdistan at a young age, coming to Denmark as a 15-year-old, where she finished her secondary schooling and began university.

[citation needed] Omar published a poem in the literary magazine Kritiker in 2014, entitled "The River of Pain That Continues Its Wandering".

[6] She also contributed the poem Barndommens tavshed (Childhood Silence) in the anthology Ord på flugt (Words on the run), published by Danish PEN.

[citation needed] Two years later, on 26 November 2019, the sequel Skyggedanseren was published, which was awarded the booksellers' literature prize, De Gyldne Laurbær.

[citation needed] Both of Omar's novels are published by Politikens Forlag, and they have been translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Serbian, Macedonian and French.

[citation needed] She has appeared in campaigns for Amnesty International and for Danner,[12] where she participated in the "Life after Violence" project on abused and vulnerable children and women.

Shortly after the release of Dødevaskeren, Omar was invited to give a New Year's speech in Deadline on DR2,[16] where she focused on the violent world in which some Muslim women live.

"[24] In addition, Omar received the 2019 ELLE Style Awards as Woman of the Year " for her novel The Death Washer, which unveils a man-chauvinistic culture that has taken Islam hostage".