'I am just relieved for now': Iranian author on the war and her book at the Cork World Book Fest

Ahead of a visit to Cork, author Roxana Manouchehri talks about the comfort of food inspiring her book, and shares her fears for her parents in Iran, writes Colette Sheridan

Roxana Manouchehri will be reading at Cork World Book Festival.

Iranian artist and author Roxana Manouchehri will be interviewed at the Cork World Book Fest about her evocative book, This is Not a Cookbook. 

Based in Dublin, this is an anxious time for the graduate in painting. Manouchehri’s elderly parents live in Tehran, and during the first week of the war in Iran, a hospital beside their house was bombed.