Friday, February 1, 2019

Australia’s Richest Book Prize Goes To Refugee Interned In Offshore Camp

Kurdish-Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani composed his first book, No Friend But the Mountains, one text message at a time from inside the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea, one of the offshore centers where Australia places refugees who try to reach the country by sea. Now that book has won the A$100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature. — The Guardian



Article source here:Arts Journal

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