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A Translator Between Worlds: On Behrouz Boochani’s Work from the Manus Island Prison Camp

A Translator Between Worlds: On Behrouz Boochani’s Work from the Manus Island Prison Camp

His intellectual and journalistic training, coupled with an eloquent capacity for literary expression, enables Behrouz Boochani to bridge the lived experience of refugees with non-refugee audiences and to express it in the context of the critical social and political theory which shapes intellectual elites' understanding of the refugee crisis.