Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani is a non-resident visiting scholar at Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC), at the University of Sydney. His text is translated by Omid Tofighian, American University in Cairo and the University of Sydney. Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Picador) was released on 31 July 2018. His feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time (2017), co-directed with Arash Kamali Sarvestani, is available to watch on Vimeo: vimeo.com/ondemand/chauka. At the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019, his book won the Victorian Prize for Literature in addition to the Non-Fiction category.