![Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish asylum seeker and whistle blower, currently in a detention centre on Manus Island. Getty.](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/CFM7A4YHNX4Z3JCK2KNG453OIE.jpg?smart=true&auth=880d23f52c4359dc1f2b95d0b9c0b1b644084e5cfa4a102a2c3d3f2dc21e3552&width=400&height=225)
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish asylum seeker and whistle blower, currently in a detention centre on Manus Island. Getty.
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish asylum seeker and whistle blower, currently in a detention centre on Manus Island. Getty. Kurdish-Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani accepts Australia's National Biography award over WhatsApp from Manus Island prison
Boochani has just entered his sixth year of detention on Manus, and wrote a book of his ordeal via text message
Ashleigh Stewart
August 12, 2019