Behrouz BoochaniBehrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, filmmaker and human rights defender. He spent six years in detention at Australia's Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, from 2013 until its closure in 2017. His memoir, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, won the 2019 Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature and for Nonfiction.

The Friday Poem: Forgive me my love by Behrouz Boochani

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A poem by writer, journalist, and former Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani. Forgive me my love Translated by Moones Mansoubi, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, 2018   Forgive me my bird as I am not able to embrace you. But here, in this corner, I know some migrating birds that I smile to at dawn. … Read more