Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: Behrouz Boochani

Detained Asylum Seeker Wins Prestigious Australian Literary Award

Behrouz Boochani is a failed asylum seeker from Iran who has been held on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for almost six years. The place doesn’t get much coverage for an offshore detention centre that holds failed refugees indefinitely, and maybe it should but all that might be about to change as Boochani’s book is about his time on the island and his attempted journey to safety.