Behrouz Boochani with Murdoch Stephens at Verb Writers Festival 2020

Written By Verb Wellington

After six years detained on Manus Island by Australian authorities, the author of No Friend but the Mountains Behrouz Boochani is safely in Aotearoa with refugee status granted, and a research fellow position at the University of Canterbury. Murdoch Stephens talked with Behrouz about how the events of 2020 impacted on him and on his craft as a writer, at Verb Writers Festival 2020.

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