• Subscribe
    • Free AJ Newsletters
    • Subscribe to AJ’s Premium Newsletters
  • Follow
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Tumblr
    • RSS
  • Advertising
    • Advertising
    • About AJClassifieds
    • Place a Classified Ad
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • Sources

ArtsJournal - Newsside

  • HOME
  • DANCE
  • IDEAS
  • ISSUES
  • MEDIA
  • MUSIC
  • PEOPLE
  • THEATRE
  • VISUAL
  • WORDS
  • AUDIENCE
  • AJBLOGS

Memoir By Kurdish Prisoner In Australia’s Offshore Migrant Camp Keeps Winning Book Awards (Which He Accepts Via WhatsApp)

WORDS Posted: August 13, 2019 7:05 am

Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, which recounts his escape from Iran to Indonesia and onward to Australia by boat, has just won the $25,000 National Biography Award, the fourth prize it has received in a year. Boochani composed the book text message by text message, which he sent from the detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. – The Guardian

WORDS Published: 08.12.19

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 08.12.19

[wp-rss-aggregator template=”ajblogpage” limit=”20″]

.