AustLit
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An award proposed by the judging committee, with or without prize money. This award is made for a work not readily covered by the existing categories or in recognition of a writer's achievements in general.
This award is not open to public nominations.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2019
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No Friend but the Mountains : Writing From Manus Prison
No Friend but the Mountains : The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee
Omid Tofighian
(translator),
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
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2018
14342605
2018
selected work
prose
'Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains...
'Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island offshore processing centre.
'People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests...
'This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.
'Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? ' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2014
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Year: 2013
winner David Ireland
Works About this Award
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A Pair of Ragged Claws 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1 - 2 December 2012; (p. 17) A column canvassing current literary news
