© Wikimedia Literary Activism: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the MountainsColumnOdile Heynders 17/11/20206 minutes to read Kurdish journalist / philosopher Behrouz Boochani spent nearly 5 years in a detainee camp on Manus island texting messages from a hidden mobile phone. The messages were composed to a literary novel, winning a prestigeous prize in 2018.