Behrouz Boochani wrote his novel in text messages. Now he has won Australia’s biggest literary prize

A refugee and asylum-seeker, the Kurdish journalist and film-maker wrote his book as a political memoir of what he calls Manus Prison.

Keyvan Allahyari, The Conversation

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Paul Rae, The Conversation

· Feb 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm