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Behrouz Boochani

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July 23, 1983

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Behrouz Boochani (Persian: بهروز بوچانی) holds a Masters degree in political geography and geopolitics. He is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, writer and filmmaker, founder of the Kurdish language magazine Weya, an Honorary Member of PEN International. In 2013, he fled Iran and became a political prisoner of the Australian Government incarcerated in the Manus Regional Processing Centre (Papua New Guinea). ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 9,101 ratings · 1,473 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison 3.90 avg rating — 8,916 ratings — published 2018 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Behrouz Boochani, Moones Mansoubi (Editor), Omid Tofighian (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 82 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson (Editor), Maggie MacKellar (Contributor), Tegan Bennett Daylight (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Australian Fiction 2024 by Suzy Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jumaana Abdu (Contributor), Dominic Amerena (Contributor) 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Letter From Manus Island by Behrouz Boochani, Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss by Terry Whitebeach (Editor), Gina Mercer (Editor), Petrea King (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island Magazine, #150 by Island Magazine, Vern Field (Managing Editor), Geordie Williamson (Editor-at-large) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Libertà, solo libertà (Saggi) by Behrouz Boochani, Moones Mansoubi (editor), Omid Tofighian (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani, Geoffrey Robertson (narrator), Isobelle Carmody (Goodreads Author) (narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	《K．書》特別冊：形同陌路的時刻 by 齊默 (Editor), 伊格言, 唐捐 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have always despised waiting. Waiting is a mechanism of torture used in the dungeon of time.”
― Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

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“I’m destined to die in a particular way, when I choose. I decide that my own death must involve an act of the will — I resolve it within me, in my very soul.”
― Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

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“The presence of my mother / She is always present.”
― Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

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