Ten top heroes in refugee fiction

Jon Walter is the author of Close To the Wind and My Name's Not Friday. One of his top ten heroes of refugee fiction, as shared at the Guardian:

Arthur Dent from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Arthur Dent is the least heroic of our heroes. Escaping Earth just before its destruction, he travels through the universe still wearing his dressing gown and wanting nothing more than to go home and have a cup of tea. He’s the refugee as eternal voyager, taking the reader with him on a journey to strange places so that we can glimpse the absurdity of our own world. See also, Odysseus, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Gulliver’s Travels.

Read about another entry on the list.

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--Marshal Zeringue