An Iranian Kurdish writer detained on a remote island for nearly six years under Australia’s harsh anti-migrant policy has won the country’s richest literary prize for his poetic memoir about trying but failing to rebuild his life.
The award to Behrouz Boochani of the A$100,000 (£55,000) Victorian Prize for Literature has embarrassed the Australian government.
Boochani, 35, a journalist and filmmaker, wrote most of No Friend But The Mountains on an old iPhone. He has been held in an Australian immigration detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea since 2013.
Under Australian law, anyone caught trying to reach the country by small boat can never be allowed to settle in the country and is banished to Pacific island detention centres.
Boochani, who graduated…
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February 01, 2019
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