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Editor's note
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Author and academic Robert Manne recently observed that ‘every Australian, beginning with the Prime Minister’, should read Behrouz Boochani’s prose-poetry masterpiece, No Friend But the Mountains. Composed via text messages, the book is a memoir of the five years Boochani, a Kurdish journalist and refugee from Iran, has spent imprisoned and exiled on Manus Island.
For the book’s translator Omid Tofighian, translating this work from Farsi to English was an epic task. As Tofighian writes, each chapter was a long text message of up to 17,000 words, written in a style he calls ‘horrific surrealism’. He would consult the author on WhatsApp, and eventually flew to Manus to meet him. Their shared goal, he writes, was to expose the ‘systematic torture’ at the heart of the offshore detention regime.
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Suzy Freeman-Greene
Section Editor: Arts + Culture
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Behrouz Boochani photographed on Manus Island.
Jason Garman/Amnesty International via AAP
Omid Tofighian, University of Sydney
Behrouz Boochani wrote his memoir of incarceration on Manus Island one text message at a time. Translating this work of 'horrific surrealism' from Farsi to English was a profoundly philosophical experience.
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