the Recipient of the Victorian prize for literature and the Victorian premier’s literary awards in 2019, a total of 125.000 australian dollars, equivalent to 820.000 sek. But this year was not the award winner to attend the award ceremony.
The kurdish-iranian writer Behrouz Boochani is soon six years in australian detention for asylum seekers on Manus in Papua New Guinea. He refused entry to Australia but is gaining now the country’s largest literary prize.
the Book, ”No friend but the mountains” he wrote through a text message at a time on WhatsApp.
from Iran, after police arrested several of his journalistkolleger and did the search warrant on his office.
“It is a paradoxical feeling,” said Behrouz Boochani to The Guardian on to win Australia’s biggest literary prize while he was not allowed into the country.
” My main goal has always been to people in Australia and around the world to understand how this system has tortured innocent people on Manus and Nauru, in a systematic way in almost six years. I hope that this award will bring more attention to our situation, and create a change that will put an end to this barbaric policy.
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