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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Irish Book of the Year, Winner of the Orwell Prize and Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022

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Arizona, and crime rates go up—an assertion that overlooks numerous other variables but fits Sowell’s ideological slant. There are so many beautiful and remarkable places across Africa, but possibly the memories that will stay with me the longest are from Tigray, northern Ethiopia, before the current war began. She achieves what all great writing hopes to do — the restoration of humanity to those who have been deprivedof it. Keay’s The Restless Republic is about the decade in the 1600s after King Charles I was executed for treason, the English monarchy abolished and the House of Lords discarded.

It was a level of support I could never have dreamed of, from people whose work I have always admired. People ask her how she can deal with such traumatic work and she “can’t help feeling that this question is another way for people to avoid engaging with the bigger issues”. However, in their wit, elegance and compassion, these powerful winning books also help us think about the choices we make, and how to make the future better.

So many aspects of humanity are the same wherever you go, but of course there is a lot more privilege in Ireland. I think often of an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum in DC that shows the unused American visa spots that could have been allotted to German and Polish Jews before WWII. 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).

Sally Hayden has written a pathbreaking narrative journalism book reflecting the corruption of humanitarian agencies and the incredible courage of the fleeing war refugees. You become cargo, a piece of meat, a being that loses humanity when you can no longer recognize the humanity of others around you. It was adapted for film as An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), written and directed by Colm Bairéad, and has become the most successful Irish-language film. Unexpectedly finding herself a journalistic agony aunt for migrants being tortured, starved and raped inside horrific Libyan detention centres, Sally Hayden weaves together their WhatsApp and Facebook messages to produce the most riveting, detailed and damning account ever written on the deadliest of migration routes.Aside from all this, it was going to Sudan, in 2017, that really made me question which stories we hear about refugees, and how murky the truth can become when the biggest humanitarian organisation filtering them is also constantly angling for donations from states.

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