Event 71
Richard Lloyd Parry talks to Kate Summerscale
The Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize - Ghosts of the Tsunami
– Compass
A work of literary non-fiction that travels deep into the grief, the trauma and the mysteries of the remote communities that lived through the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize.
The foreign correspondent and Asia Editor of The Times Richard Lloyd Parry receives the £20,000 prize – which rewards the best work of literature of the year, regardless of form – for Ghosts of the Tsunami. Chair of judges Kate Summerscale said - “it is a piece of heightened reportage about the 2011 Japanese earthquake and its devastating aftermaths. It is both harrowing and inspiring. Here is a book which not only interprets for a non-Japanese reader the subtleties and complexities of that nation’s life, especially its family life and how it copes with grief, but also has the depth and reach to close the gaps between other nations and cultures."
This follows last year’s event with Ahdaf Soueif and Hisham Matar celebrating the first year of the reLaunched Rathbones Folio prize.
The foreign correspondent and Asia Editor of The Times Richard Lloyd Parry receives the £20,000 prize – which rewards the best work of literature of the year, regardless of form – for Ghosts of the Tsunami. Chair of judges Kate Summerscale said - “it is a piece of heightened reportage about the 2011 Japanese earthquake and its devastating aftermaths. It is both harrowing and inspiring. Here is a book which not only interprets for a non-Japanese reader the subtleties and complexities of that nation’s life, especially its family life and how it copes with grief, but also has the depth and reach to close the gaps between other nations and cultures."
This follows last year’s event with Ahdaf Soueif and Hisham Matar celebrating the first year of the reLaunched Rathbones Folio prize.
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