Manus Prison News Today

 

A Manus Islander herself, Michelle Rooney reviews Berhouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains, from an Oceanian lens.

Four writers whose revelations of the refugee experience encourage readers to broaden their understanding and their empathy.

In today’s letters to the editor: wildfires and health; foreign interference; private refugee sponsorship; MAID; best airport meals

The first group of nonfiction highlights include biography/memoir, graphic novels, and nature titles.

As a member of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, Javiet Ealom faced violence and persecution from the government. In search of a better life, he boarded a boat with other asylum seekers. But rather than finding refuge, he was detained at one of Australia’s notorious offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea. After three years in the overcrowded, unsanitary and ’soul-crushing’ facility, Jaivet planned and executed what would be the only successful escape from the prison. He spe...

Hey guys!!! Our reading challenge is ALMOST OVER, so dont give up now! For November, we will be exploring the literary lands of Australia, guided by our very own winter_lace, who wrote this months post for us! - Australia is the largest country located with the continent of Oceania and is…

By awarding this year’s Nobel Prize for literature to Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Swedish Academy ennobled the prize itself.

NOW Magazine Border Trouble: Migration, Research Creation, Art & Policy Border Trouble: Migration, Research Creation, Art & Policy by 80 80 people viewed this event. Four day online conference with symposium co-hosted by Rye...

This article inspired me to start writing. I did not want to respond to them by adding a comment, so I started writing a short fictional story based on real events called Close the Eyes of Your Conscience.” It ended up getting published by Meanjin this September. I was not fluent in English so I wrote the story in Farsi. In January 2019 I met Omid Tofighian on Manus Island and I spoke to him about my writing. He was keen to translate it. This was the beginning of my collaboration with Omid, a...