Asylum-Seeker Wins Prestigious Australian Literary Prize From Inside Detention Center

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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist detained for more than five years in Papua New Guinea after seeking asylum in Australia, has won two Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for his debut book, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, even though he's still not allowed into the country.

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