Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). In the finest tradition of George Orwell’s journalism, George Monbiot draws on a vast reserve of knowledge to write with wit, elegance, forensic insight, and sustained and justified anger about the most important, and most neglected, crisis facing humanity. His targets range from organised crime to criminal political indifference and he leaves us in no doubt about what we must do to survive. Sponsored and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils has a unique remit to encourage, highlight and sustain original, insightful, and impactful reporting on social issues in the UK that has enhanced the public understanding of social problems and public policy, and welcomes reporting that uses investigative intelligence to pursue new kinds of story, ones that may also extend the reach of traditional media. The Prize is named in recognition of the task Joseph Rowntree gave his organization ‘to search out the underlying causes of weakness or evil’ that lay behind Britain’s social problems. Hayden’s narrative is interspersed with quotes from text messages she has received, which purposefully break the flow of the story, successfully simulating the fractured nature of how events occurred.

a b c "War Journalist Sally Hayden receives 2020 Law Alumni Award". Sutherland School of Law . Retrieved 22 April 2022– via UCD.ie. This is powerful political journalism, and needs to be read as such, as she says to Moraes, the chair of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee in 2018: Through its screen she saw horrors that Europe was intent on ignoring, disappearing photos and videos from disappearing people. “What is it like,” she reflects, “to watch innocent people being shot through Facebook Messenger?” Jarring messages interject in Hayden’s text the way they must have flashed as notifications on her phone. “They are beating and shooting us. There’s no food, no water. The children are crying, starving. Please.” How do you unwind after a difficult assignment?: I sleep and exercise – going to a gym or doing boxing classes. Morland’s A Fortunate Woman is about the author’s discovery of the book A Fortunate Man by Booker prize winner John Berger, and was described by the judges as a “work of breathtaking intimacy”.

Intrepidly reported and vividly written, this sobering account shines a spotlight on an underreported tragedy.” — Publishers Weekly Little official help came. “I used to be afraid of smugglers in Libya,” said one refugee; “now I’m afraid of organisations that claim humanity.” Hayden’s meticulous and humane reporting is particularly scathing of the actions of the UNHCR and its UN partner, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). She reveals deep corruption, arrogance and inhumanity. Irish journalist Sally Hayden describes one of the great tragedies of our era, the story of the thousands of refugees bent on starting new lives in the West, who instead spend years rotting in Sudanese refugee camps, trappedin Libyan prisons, clinging to sinking dinghies in the Mediterranean. Her harrowing portrait captures the voices of theEritreans, Somalis, Ethiopians, Gambians and Sierra Leoneans caught up in this pitiless modern slave trade, whoconstantly remind us that the desire to better yourself is the most fundamental of human impulses. This is a remarkable and important book.” — MichelaWrong, author of ‘Do Not Disturb’ Hayden, Sally (3 July 2019). "Opinion:They Hoped to Reach Europe Before They Were Massacred". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com. A book to make me laugh?: They aren’t exactly comedy, but when I’ve travelled to various cities lately, like Accra, Lagos and Nairobi, I’ve read the associated book from the Akashic Noir series. They are collections of crime stories by writers set in their own country and some do contain wry humour.

The noted conservative economist delivers arguments both fiscal and political against social justice initiatives such as welfare and a federal minimum wage. Kafka retold by an Irishwoman in Africa. Read this great book shedding light on a monstrous crime.” —John Sweeney, host of Hunting Ghislaine with John Sweeney Hayden makes the list with her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned, which investigates the migrant crisis across north Africa and into Europe through the experience and testimony of refugees. The judges said it was “an exceptional, extraordinarily powerful work of reportage”. They praised “Hayden’s dogged determination to foreground the stories of those who brave the world’s deadliest migration route across the Mediterranean from Libya” and said it was “nothing short of heroic”. The best and worst things about where you live?: I am a bit nomadic, after spending five years in London, two in Uganda and one in Sierra Leone. Living out of a suitcase is great in many ways but some day I wonder if it might be comforting to own a piece of furniture. It’s been brilliant to spend more time in Dublin since the book came out, catching up with friends and family.Hayden uses Essey’s case to discuss the political situation in Libya, the position of the EU in funding Libyan coastguards, so that refugees will not make it to EU waters, where they would have refugee status and the work done by the various UN bodies involved with refugees, partially funded by the EU. Sally Hayden is an Irish journalist and writer. A foreign correspondent, she has reported from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. Her book My Fourth Time, We Drowned, an investigation into the migrant crisis, was published in 2022 and awarded The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022, [1] the 2022 Michel Déon Prize, [2] and is the Overall Book of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards. [3] [4] Early life [ edit ] This vivid chronicle of the lives and dreams of those who risk all the cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe may make you cry, but it should make you angry. It is not just a blistering rebuke to those who torture, rape and imprison, but to the rest of us, who turn a blind eye.” — LindseyHilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 News Who do you admire the most?: The older I get the more respect I have for my parents for a myriad of reasons. My Fourth Time, We Drowned casts light on a dark world that would be only too visible if we cared to look. These are stories that should be heard by everyone.

Hayden beschrijft hier de Afrikaanse migratie via Ethiopische en Libische smokkelroutes, de oversteek van de Middellandse Zee naar hoofdzakelijk Italië. Ook de verdragen die de EU met de Libische kustwacht afgesloten heeft en wat de gevolgen hiervan zijn komen ruim aan bod. My reading of this coincided with all of the recent news in the UK about the Tory government's renewed attempts to stop small boats of migrants crossing the Channel from Europe. The book was already on my radar following it winning the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022, and after reading the impressive The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground last year. Super-Infinite by Rundell is a look at the myriad lives of the poet John Donne, and “brings the poet to life for the fan of his works, and it makes the person who has yet to discover them want to,” said the judges.A book that might move me to tears?: Bushra al-Maqtari’s What Have You Left Behind, about the devastation of the war in Yemen, which I recently reviewed for The Irish Times; and Alexa Hagerty’s Still Life With Bones, on the exhumation of mass graves in Latin America. It comes out next year but I was sent an early copy. Dr Christopher Kissane is a historian and writer, and host of the Ireland’s Edge podcast Christopher Kissane Who is your favourite fictional character?: I used to always love detectives, like Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey. The UN agencies had allowed themselves to be used by the EU, effectively whitewashing a brutal system of violence and torture The evidence [presented] in My Fourth Time, We Drownedis overwhelming. The facts argue for a more urgent and humane migrant policy. — Washington Independent Review of Books

The judges for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing are: Stephen Bush, columnist and associate editor at the Financial Times; David Edgerton (chair of judges), Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London; Kennetta Hammond Perry, founding Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and Reader in History at De Montfort University and Anne McElvoy, broadcaster and is Senior Editor of The Economist. They said: A brilliant, unparalleled investigation of one of the most underreported scandals and monstrous crimes of our time.” — Responsible StatecraftMy Fourth Time, We Drowned is compassionate, brave, enraging, beautifully written and incredibly well-researched. Hayden exposes the truth about years of grotesque abuse committed against some of the world’s most vulnerable people in all of our names. After this, none of us can say we didn’t know.” —Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland Hayden introduces her story with her receiving a Facebook message from a Libyan jail in August 2018, going on to briefly describe the situation for refugees/asylum seekers/economic migrants in Libya. My Fourth Time, We Drowned is compassionate, brave, enraging, beautifully written and incredibly well researched. Hayden exposes the truth about years of grotesque abuse committed against some of the world’s most vulnerable people in all of our names. After this, none of us can say we didn’t know.” — Oliver Bullough, author of ‘Moneyland’ Intrepidly reported and vividly written, this sobering account shines a spotlight on an underreported tragedy.” —Publishers Weekly One of the finest non-fiction books I have read in a long time.” — Matthew d’Ancona, Tortoise Media