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Behrouz Boochani won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Amnesty International/AAP

Behrouz Boochani’s literary prize cements his status as an Australian writer

Keyvan Allahyari, The University of Melbourne and Paul Rae, The University of Melbourne

Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker currently detained on Manus Island, has won Australia’s richest literary prize. The win commands the question, ‘what makes an Australian writer?’

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