Day of the Imprisoned Writer with Behrouz Boochani

Arts, culture & social functions
Gadigal Country/Sydney

When

6:00pm to 7:30pm Saturday 18 November

Where

State Library of New South Wales
Library Auditorium, LG1, Macquarie Building
1 Shakespeare Place
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Why

TALKS & IDEAS
To mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, Kurdish-Iranian writer, cultural advocate and filmmaker Behrouz Boochani speaks with Ben Doherty.

When Behrouz Boochani became the Voice of Manus he revealed the chaos and cruelty of a secret regime and made a nation take notice. But five years on from finding freedom in New Zealand, who is Behrouz Boochani now? What happens to imprisoned writers when they are no longer in prison?

In this wide-ranging conversation, he reflects on his years in detention capturing in words and on film the madness of Manus, his more recent writing – including his book Freedom, Only Freedom – his poetry and playwrighting, and as a Kurdish activist his involvement in the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ uprising in Iran.

Behrouz Boochani will be in conversation with his friend Ben Doherty – international affairs correspondent for The Guardian – for PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer.

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