Asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani has accepted the $125,000 Victorian premier’s literary prize via video link from Manus Island where he has been held for six years. 'I would like to say that this award is a victory. It is a victory not only for us but for literature and art and above all it is victory for humanity,' the writer said. 'It is a victory against the system that has reduced us to numbers. This is a beautiful moment. Let us all rejoice tonight in the power of literature'
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