Alec Patric wins Miles Franklin award for novel about Bosnian refugees

By Jason Steger
Updated September 3 2016 - 11:13am, first published August 26 2016 - 8:30pm
Refugee tale: Alec Patric has won the Miles Franklin award. Photo: Eddie Jim
Refugee tale: Alec Patric has won the Miles Franklin award. Photo: Eddie Jim

Alec Patric was only six or seven when he realised that writing was important. His mother was involved in a poetry competition between Australia and Yugoslavia and he sat holding her hand in a university lecture theatre.

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