Thursday, January 31, 2019
Boochani: Asylum seeker on Manus wins Australian literature prize | News
A Kurdish asylum seeker has won one of the most important Australian literature prizes, the Victorian Prize for Literature. However, Iranian Kurd Behrouz Boochani was unable to accept the award personally in Melbourne because he is being kept in the offshore detention centre on Manus Island. Boochani won the award, which comes with a monetary prize of $73,000, for his book “No Friend but the 
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