Kurdish-Iranian writer, filmmaker, and asylum seeker
Behrouz Boochani
Boochani in 2018
Born
(1983-07-23) 23 July 1983 (age 40) Ilam, Iran
Occupation
Journalist, writer, filmmaker, refugee advocate
Education
Political science, political geography and geopolitics
Alma mater
Tarbiat Modares University Tarbiat Moallem (Kharazmi) University
Notable works
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison; Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time (film)
Notable awards
Victorian Prize for Literature Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction
Website
behrouzboochani.com
Behrouz Boochani (Persian: بهروز بوچانی; born 23 July 1983) is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer living in New Zealand. He was held in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea from 2013 until its closure in 2017. He remained on the island before being moved to Port Moresby along with the other detainees around September 2019. On 14 November 2019 he arrived in Christchurch on a one-month visa, to speak at a special event organised by WORD Christchurch on 29 November, as well as other speaking events. In December 2019, his one month visa to New Zealand expired and he remained on an expired visa until being granted refugee status in July 2020, at which time he became a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury.
Boochani is the co-director, along with Iranian film maker Arash Kamali Sarvestani, of the documentary Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, has published numerous articles in leading media internationally about the plight of refugees held by the Australian government on Manus Island, and has won several awards.
His memoir, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in January 2019. The book was tapped out on a mobile phone in a series of single messages over time and translated from Persian into English by Omid Tofighian.
After the November 2022 publication of his second collection of writings, Freedom, Only Freedom : The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani, Boochani visited Australia for the first time to promote the book in December 2022.
BehrouzBoochani (Persian: بهروز بوچانی; born 23 July 1983) is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer living in...
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Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is an autobiographical account of BehrouzBoochani's perilous journey to Christmas Island and his subsequent incarceration...
known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Kurdish-Iranian refugee BehrouzBoochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Island detention centre...
used outside of scholarly contexts. The Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker BehrouzBoochani has described the Australian-run Manus Island prison as a kyriarchal...
2019. High-profile detainee, the Iranian-Kurdish writer and activist BehrouzBoochani, went to New Zealand in November on a one-month visa to speak at WORD...
translation of the award-winning book by Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker BehrouzBoochani, No Friend But the Mountains from Persian into English. Tofighian graduated...
referendum in 2017. No Friend But the Mountains, memoir by Kurdish writer BehrouzBoochani Bulloch, John; Morris, Harvey (1992). No Friends But the Mountains:...
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"BehrouzBoochani: Writing from Manus Prison". WORD Christchurch. Retrieved 17 November 2019. Doherty, Ben (16 November 2019). "BehrouzBoochani, brutalised...
festival in Tasmania, Australia. Poetry by Iranian-Kurdish refugee BehrouzBoochani, who was for many years detained by the Australian Government in Manus...
cartoonist Jon Kudelka. Other contributors include writers Karen Barlow, BehrouzBoochani, Fiona McGregor, David Marr, Christos Tsiolkas, Margaret Simons, Maxine...
the Year: No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, BehrouzBoochani, Omid Tofighian (translator) Honourable mention for Non-fiction Book...
refugee BehrouzBoochani, contains a first-hand account of Barati's death. In an opinion piece written for The Guardian in February 2018, BehrouzBoochani writes...
from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2019. "BehrouzBoochani". Refugee Alternatives. 23 January 2017. Archived from the original...
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2018. With texts in a booklet by Judith Butler, Paul K Saint Amour, BehrouzBoochani and Mosse. ISBN 978-1-912339-18-1. Second edition, 2019. The Enclave...
The following people are former refugees who settled in New Zealand: BehrouzBoochani - Kurdish-Iranian writer and journalist. Rez Gardi - Harvard-educated...
essays by Eldridge Cleaver, written in Folsom State Prison in 1965. BehrouzBoochani authored No Friend But the Mountains (2018) by using a mobile phone...
Time, made from within the Manus Island detention centre by refugee BehrouzBoochani and filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani in 2016. BirdLife International...
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