Literature & Ideas
Distinguished
Akuch Kuol Anyieth
born 1991
Wrote the refugee-camp childhood that South Sudanese literature had not recorded
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the South Sudan Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
Her 2022 memoir Unknown: A Refugee's Story set down a childhood in Kakuma from the inside, and won a Victorian Refugee Award.
Akuch Kuol Anyieth is a South Sudanese-Australian academic and writer.
Her memoir Unknown: A Refugee's Story, published in 2022, recounts her childhood in the Kakuma refugee camp and the journey that followed, and received a Victorian Refugee Award. She writes and researches on displacement and on the experience of South Sudanese communities in Australia.
Her memoir Unknown: A Refugee's Story, published in 2022, recounts her childhood in the Kakuma refugee camp and the journey that followed, and received a Victorian Refugee Award. She writes and researches on displacement and on the experience of South Sudanese communities in Australia.
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