Behrouz Boochani

Over six years of imprisonment in Australia’s offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book – No Friend but the Mountains. In the articles, essays, and poems he wrote while detained, he emerged as both a...

'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' - Richard Flanagan In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally and indefinitely detained on Manus Island. No Friend But the Mountains is the result. Written on a smuggled mobile phone and translated from Farsi, it is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A...