Roy collaborates with Rwandan refugee to write award-winning book

By Linda Morris
Updated October 17 2016 - 9:08pm, first published 7:09pm
Co-authors and friends, James Roy and Noel Zihabamwe.
 Photo: Steven Siewert
Co-authors and friends, James Roy and Noel Zihabamwe. Photo: Steven Siewert
One Thousand Hills won the Young People's History Prize at the NSW Premier's History Awards in September.
 Photo: Steven Siewert
One Thousand Hills won the Young People's History Prize at the NSW Premier's History Awards in September. Photo: Steven Siewert

It was at an Australia Day barbecue in Hazelbrook almost four years ago that writer James Roy came across one man's extraordinary story of violence, displacement, rescue and resettlement.

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