Books by Behrouz Boochani
“Boochani is an Iranian-Kurdish political theorist and writer who was imprisoned within the Australian migration and refugee regime in Manus Island up until the end of 2019…I think it is remarkable. People either call it a refugee testimony, which it most certainly is not, or a novel, though it’s not made up. There’s a real question about what kind of genre this book is. And the short answer to that is that Boochani and his collaborators—and there’s something really interesting about the collaborative nature of this book—were inventing new genres to describe new forms of organized horror. The book was written via WhatsApp messages coming out of the Manus Island prison system” Read more...
The best books on Human Rights and Literature
Lyndsey Stonebridge, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Behrouz Boochani were recommended
The best books on Human Rights and Literature, recommended by Lyndsey Stonebridge
The connections between human rights and literature are profound and we ignore the humanities and reading at our peril, says Lyndsey Stonebridge, Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities at the University of Birmingham. She recommends books that best show the complex relationship between literature and human rights, from Auschwitz to Manus Island.
