Manus prison poetics/our voice: revisiting ‘A Letter From Manus Island’, a reply to Anne Surma

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Notes

1. See ‘“This is hell out here”: how Behrouz Boochani’s diaries expose Australia’s refugee shame’, Behrouz Boochani, trans. M. Mansoubi and O. Tofighian, The Guardian, 4 December 2017.

2. ‘A Letter From Manus Island’, Behrouz Boochani, trans. O. Tofighian, The Saturday Paper, December 9–15, 2017.

3. System-e hākem in Farsi. This is described comprehensively in Behrouz Boochani, trans. O. Tofighian, No Friend but The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (2018, Picador, Sydney).

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Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani graduated from Tarbiat Moallem University and Tarbiat Modares University, both in Tehran; he holds a Masters degree in political science, political geography and geopolitics. He is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and filmmaker. Boochani was writer for the Kurdish language magazine Werya; is Honorary Member of PEN International; winner of an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award for journalism; and he is non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC), University of Sydney. He publishes regularly with The Guardian, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper, Huffington Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The SydneyMorning Herald. Boochani is also co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time; collaborator on Nazanin Sahamizadeh’s play Manus; and author of No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Picador 2018).Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Pan Macmillan-Picador) is due for release on 31 July 2018. Boochani’s feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time (2017), co-directed with Arash Kamali Sarvestani, is available to watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/chauka.