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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Intrepidly reported and vividly written, this sobering account shines a spotlight on an underreported tragedy.” — Publishers Weekly Sally Hayden (28 September 2017). From Our Own Correspondent (radio). BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 22 April 2022. Hayden has written for The BBC, [6] TIME, [7] The Guardian, [8] Newsweek, The Washington Post, [9] Al Jazeera, CNN International, NBC News, Channel 4 News, The New York Times, [10] Thomson Reuters Foundation News, Magnum Photos, The Irish Times, [11] The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, [12] RTÉ. [5] In 2014, she was staff writer with VICE News. [5] A]stonishingly detailed… My Fourth Time, We Drowned is not simply a catalogue of misery: it is a meticulously documented record of the complicity of the very organizations that are meant to be forces of good.” —The Times Literary Supplement The treatment of refugees has become one of the most devastating human rights disasters in our history. In this book, award-winning journalist Sally Hayden unfolds a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa.

Intrepidly reported and vividly written, this sobering account shines a spotlight on an underreported tragedy.” —Publishers Weekly The triumph of the debut book by Sally Hayden, a 33-year-old Irish reporter, is to inject a renewed urgency and moral clarity into a story most people think they are familiar with.” — The Times of London I haven’t followed her before, but thought to learn about this, since pretty much daily, it’s reported in the UK news about refugees, migrant crisis, asylum seekers, boats entering from France, people dying trying to cross Sea(s), as well as the bad conditions in detention centres. It was about time for me to dig deeper and learn more. What is your current project?: I have a few reporting assignments coming up for The Irish Times and two book ideas that I’m slowly developing. Joining Sanderson on the judging panel were writer and science journalist Laura Spinney; critic and writer for The Observer, Rachel Cooke; BBC journalist and presenter, Clive Myrie; author and New Yorker writer, Samanth Subramanian and critic and broadcaster, Georgina Godwin.Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Hayden’s noteworthy book should be a wake-up call for international aid organizations and world leaders.” — Foreign Policy A more humane policy is possible”: Sally Hayden on the welcome to Ukrainians and on covering refugees before Putin’s war’, Reuters Institute, Oxford University. What current book, film, TV show and podcast would you recommend?: I recently read So Distant From My Life by Burkinabè writer Monique Ilboudo: a novel about the relationship between Africa and Europe that could be read as a companion piece to Tayeb Salih’s 1960s classic Season of Migration to the North.

The book is a painstaking work of primary research but it is also a furious and passionate polemic.” — Jonathan Coe Reading Hayden’s book is like descending through the middle bolgias of the Inferno, except that Dante’s hell does not hide behind a gauzy screen of humanitarian concern…” — The Sunday Times The painful themes from this formidable book are skillfully written about by Sally Hayden…” — New Lines Magazine My book of the year last year, this year and next… What a devastating book about the catastrophic inhumanity of European migration policy. It’s a journalistic masterpiece. Shattering stories. It absolutely demands to be read … Essential.” — Max Porter, author of ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ She then starts her story properly with Essey in Eritrea (a country about which I knew nothing apart from its location). He makes his way across Ethiopia and Sudan, to Libya, where he unsuccessfully tries to travel by people smugglers’ dinghy to Europe. Having been stopped by Libyan coastal patrols twice and getting his extended family to pay bribes to get him freed, his family runs out of money and he is imprisoned in Libya.Het is geen verhaal om vrolijk van te worden en het toont nog maar eens aan hoe complex en quasi onoplosbaar dit probleem is. The shortlist for the prize, which recognises the best nonfiction of the year, was chosen from a longlist of 12, which was selected from 362 books. MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) 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’

Without proper reporting we know nothing of our circumstances, yet journalism and journalists are now under threat as rarely before. So treasure this great journalism – forensic, decent and beautifully crafted. Akkoorden tussen Libië en EU met betrekking tot terugname van bootvluchtelingen zijn voorbij, heb ik begrepen. Hayden, Sally (3 July 2019). "Opinion:They Hoped to Reach Europe Before They Were Massacred". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com. 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.Two Irish writers have won Britain’s leading prizes for political writing - one for a novel about a man taking a moral stand against a Magdalene laundry; the other for her book about the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. Refugees from across Africa and the Middle East were bought and sold, exploited and abused, and now Europe paid to have them intercepted and detained Reading this made me grateful for living in a country with a national health service, freedom and peace (relatively). Heartbreaking stories and so necessary to read. Felt even more of a pang when I read the stories that I have already heard first hand from people I work with and for on a daily basis.