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'In Richard Flanagan’s foreword to No Friend But the Mountains, he states that Behrouz Boochani is ‘a great Australian writer’. The notion of what constitutes Australian literature has always been a bit nebulous. At first blush, it seems easy to define: writing by Australians. But then, who are these Australians? And by what definition could Boochani be considered an Australian writer? As Keyvan Allahyari and Paul Rae wrote in The Conversation, ‘If a non-citizen who has never set foot on mainland Australia can win [the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award], who counts as an Australian author?’' (Introduction)
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https://overland.org.au/2019/07/offshoreashore-australias-refugee-writing/
Offshore/Ashore : Australia’s Refugee Writing
Overland [Online]
Subjects:
- No Friend but the Mountains : Writing From Manus Prison Omid Tofighian (translator), 2018 selected work prose
- They Cannot Take the Sky : Stories from Detention 2017 anthology autobiography interview
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