Ammar Kalia

AMMAR KALIA is a writer, musician and journalist living in London. Since 2019, he has been the Guardian 's Global Music Critic and he has written for publications including the Observer , BBC, Dazed, Mixmag, Economist, Downbeat and Crack Magazine . In 2020 he published a collection of poetry and an accompanying album, Kintsugi: Jazz Poems for Musicians Alive And Dead , and in 2022 his essay on music and identity was included in the collection Haramacy . A Person Is A Prayer is Kalia's debut...See more

AMMAR KALIA is a writer, musician and journalist living in London. Since 2019, he has been the Guardian 's Global Music Critic and he has written for publications including the Observer , BBC, Dazed, Mixmag, Economist, Downbeat and Crack Magazine . In 2020 he published a collection of poetry and an accompanying album, Kintsugi: Jazz Poems for Musicians Alive And Dead , and in 2022 his essay on music and identity was included in the collection Haramacy . A Person Is A Prayer is Kalia's debut novel and was shortlisted for the Unbound Firsts Prize in 2022. See less