Pacific

Interpreting Manus Island book 'No Friend but the Mountains'

05:02 am on 6 August 2018

The translator of a book written in detention on Papua New Guinea Manus Island says the author has used art as a form of resistance.

No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, is by Kurdish refugee Behrouz Boochani.

Ben Robinson Drawbridge spoke with the translator, Omid Tafighian.

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Behrouz Boochani Photo: Supplied