What Comes After Freedom: In Conversation with Behrouz Boochani
- Alexandra Marcy Hall
- Jul 1, 2024
- 14 min read
Updated: Jul 6
Behrouz Boochani is an award-winning Kurdish writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, and filmmaker. His memoir No Friend But the Mountains (Pan Macmillan 2018, translated by Omid Tofighian) was written during his seven years of incarceration by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island prison. His new book, Freedom, Only Freedom, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2022.
This interview was conducted on 4 November 2023.