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Behrouz Boochani
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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. Provided by Wikipedia