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Yuot Alaak Yuot Alaak i(10721161 works by) (birth name: Yuot A. Alaak)
Gender: Male
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Yuot Alaak is an African Australian writer from Western Australia.

From Margaret River Press:

'Yuot Alaak is a former child refugee from South Sudan. He [...] lives with his family in Perth, Western Australia, where he works as a mining professional. He enjoys writing for fun and loves storytelling. Yuot was part of the globally known ‘Lost Boys of Sudan’.' (Source : Margaret River Press website)

In 2019, Fremantle Press acquired Alaak's manuscript, Father of the Lost Boys, about his father's saving of nearly 20,000 'lost boys' during the Sudan's civil war. The manuscript had been shortlisted for a 2018 T.A.G. Hungerford Award.

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y separately published work icon Father of the Lost Boys Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2020 18424353 2020 single work autobiography

'During the Second Sudanese Civil War, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia. There, in 1989, teacher and community leader Mecak Ajang Alaak assumed care of the Lost Boys in a bid to protect them from becoming child soldiers. So began a four-year journey from Ethiopia to Sudan and on to the safety of a Kenyan refugee camp. Together they endured starvation, animal attacks and the horrors of landmines and aerial bombardment. This eyewitness account by Mecak Ajang Alaak’s son, Yuot, is the extraordinary true story of a man who never ceased to believe that the pen is mightier than the gun.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2018 shortlisted City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
2020 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer
2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
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