This Tatra 603s Used To Belong To Yasser Arafat, Or Did It?

       They've announced the winners of this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards -- "Australia's richest literary prize". 
       Like the British Whitbread Costa Book Awards, there are category-winners (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, writing for young adults and, every other year (but not this one), Indigenous writing), who each receive A$25,000, with the 'Victorian Prize for Literature' (and another A$100,000) going to the one selected from the category winners as best of all; this year it was the drama winner, S.Shakthidharan's Counting and Cracking; see also the Belvoir production page. 
       Christos Tsiolkas' novel, Damascus, won the fiction category award. 

This Tatra Used To Belong To Yasser Arafat, Or Did It?

Max Finkel

Feb 3, 2020, 8:05pm

Not many people got to have Tatra 603s. They were usually
reserved for people who had status on the other side of
the Iron Curtain. People the leadership wanted to impress.
Yasser Arafat was one of those people, and this was allegedly his car.