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Joshua Mostafa Joshua Mostafa i(A134651 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Bengali
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'Joshua Mostafa is a fiction writer and a doctoral candidate at the Writing and Society Research Centre (2019), Western Sydney University, researching the poetics of prehistory in fiction. His novella Offshore (2019) won the 2019 Seizure Viva la Novella Prize.' (Australian Humanities Review 65 November 2019 16.)

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y separately published work icon Offshore Sydney : Seizure , 2019 18022662 2019 single work novella 'In very near future Sydney, an academic finds himself unprepared to deal with a city collapsing into chaos. The internet has disappeared, the water isn’t running and there is no electricity. As rival paramilitary groups battle for control of the streets, he pays people smugglers to help him escape overseas, only to be held in an island detention camp. There he finds a former ally and together they try to change their fate.' (Publication summary)
2019 winner Viva La Novella Award
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