My Fourth Time, We Drowned

The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the worst human rights disasters in history. Here Sally Hayden not only surveys the bigger picture - the negligence of NGOs, corruption within the UN, and the EU’s bankrolling of Libyan militias - but gives a voice to people who have made unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them to disappear.

Informationen zum Autor Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned, won the 2022 Orwell Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford. She is currently the Africa correspondent for the Irish Times, and has also worked with VICE News, CNN International, the Financial Times, TIME, BBC, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Times, Channel 4 News, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeeraand Newsweek, among others. A law graduate with an MSc in international politics, she has twice sat on the committee deciding the winner of Transparency International's Anti-Corruption Award. In 2019, she was included on the Forbes '30 Under 30' list of media in Europe. Klappentext WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZEWINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY Vorwort Irish Book of the Year, Winner of the Orwell Prize and Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY

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In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. 'Hi sister Sally, we need your help,' it read.'We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.' More messages followed from more refugees. They told sto

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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY