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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A deeply researched and harrowing chronicle of the experiences of many refugees fleeing dictatorships, violence, persecution, and war. The book is the culmination of a one-woman fact-finding mission to uncover the myriad abuses faced by migrants hoping to make a better life for themselves in Europe.” — Foreign Policy Yi-Dionne, Kim; Seay, Laura (18 December 2022). "It's International Migrants Day. These are three must-read books". WashingtonPost.com . Retrieved 19 December 2022. Both Sally Hayden and Claire Keegan have, in very different ways, written gripping stories about things that should alarm us: there are awful truths right at the heart of our societies and systems. 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. Orwell would be proud.

Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 11 October 2022 . Retrieved 17 October 2022. This is a brilliant book, powerful and emotional – Sally Hayden is a superb journalist and through her incredible courage and eyewitness testimonies, paints a compelling picture of the poignant and horrific lives endured by so many refugees and migrants. A must read for anyone with a conscience”. — Miriam O’Callaghan, presenter RTE Prime Time 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: a b Doyle, Martin (7 December 2022). "Sally Hayden wins An Post Irish Book of the Year award for My Fourth Time, We Drowned". The Irish Times.

Hayden’s powerful book relays the harrowing stories migrants have shared with her from their experiences in various Libyan migrant detention centers, from enduring near-starvation conditions to torture and even death…an accessible, critically reported account…” - - The Washington Post I first watched the movie for this, which I also highly recommend, but even so, this book was a must-read. Szpilman toed the line with death so so so closely for four years. And he grew too familiar with death, among strangers on the street, in his family, and most of his friends, community, and city. He survived, out of forced resilience, and his story is one to be honored and remembered. The 75th anniversary edition also shares diary entries from the German soldier who helped Szpilman in his final days before Germany's retreat from Poland. Wilm Hosenfeld's entries ring true even today, in light of the devastation happening in Gaza, except instead with the "appalling mass murder" of Palestinians today: Hayden’s reporting is journalism on a new level. I can only recommend that you, the reader, take the plunge and learn about the deepest abysses of humanity & the systems it has created.” — E-International Relations

I frantically underlined journalist Sally Hayden’s first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned… Readers should … let Hayden’s vital reporting make them reconsider their view of what makes a moral world.” —The Baffler Intrepidly reported and vividly written, this sobering account shines a spotlight on an underreported tragedy.” — Publishers Weekly Healthy Eating Steel-cut, stoneground or rolled oats? What’s the healthiest, most nutritious way to eat porridge 03:30 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 ] 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 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. Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. 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. A wrenching account of what people will endure in search of a better life.” - The Washington Independent Review of Books 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.” — Geographical