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A detained asylum seeker has won Australia’s most valuable literary award

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Behrouz Boochani has been awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature for his book No Friend But the Mountains. The Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker accepted the $100,000 (AU) award via a phone call to Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island where he is currently detained.

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