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Behrouz Boochani: Writing as Resilience and Resistance
No full textThis chapter is a case study of the extraordinary story of Kurdish-Iranian journalist and author Behrouz Boochani. Behrouz has spent his life as a member of a marginalised group, whether that be in his homeland of Iran where he was persecuted for preserving the Kurdish culture and language or in Papua New Guinea where he was persecuted as a refugee. Behrouz wrote his book, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (2018), secretly on a smartphone while held in detention on Manus Island and sent it in instalments to his translators in Australia via WhatsApp messages. After publication, it received several major literary prizes and is acclaimed as a masterpiece. This chapter looks at the process of writing as an act of resistance and resilience
Book review: No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison By Behrouz Boochani. Translated by Omid Tofighian. Sydney, Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018. xxxiv + 374 pp. ISBN 9781760555382 (pbk). AU$32.99.
No full textThe author, Behrouz Boochani, is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, filmmaker and was a prisoner on Manus Island..
Vor dreißig Jahren begann die Herrschaft des iranischen Schahs Reza Pahlawi zu zerfallen
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