Dark Dreams : Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers Aged 11-20 Years - Sonja Dechian

Dark Dreams

Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers Aged 11-20 Years

By: Sonja Dechian (Editor), Heather Millar (Editor), Eva Sallis (Editor)

Paperback | 15 July 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition in 2002. The essays and stories represent many different countries and themes. Some focus on survival, some on horrors, some on the experiences and alienation of a new world. This book will have a a key role to play in schools across Australia.

Eva Sallis's first novel Hiam won The Australian Vogel and the Dobbie Literary Awards. She is co-founder of Australians Against Racism and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

'Stories to melt the hardest heart.' - Helen Garner

'We have not been allowed to know the (recent) refugees as human beings ... These stories change all that and force a personal response from the reader.' - Phillip Adams

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