Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 Ceremony

On 8 May 2018, the Rathbones Folio Prize was awarded to Richard Lloyd Parry, for his Ghosts of the Tsunami, at a ceremony held at the British Library. The ceremony welcomed over 350+ guests, and the winner was announced by chair of judges, Jim Crace.  ...

Rathbones Folio Prize Winner 2018 – Selected Press Coverage

BBC Radio 4 Front Row Podcast  Interview with Richard Lloyd Parry, available from 9.5.18   The Guardian  Ghosts of the Tsunami Wins Folio Prize for Deeply Felt Reportage of 2011 Disaster 08.05.18   The Times  Times Writer Richard Lloyd Parry’s Haunting...

Announcing the Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018

The Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 is Richard Lloyd Parry, for Ghosts of The Tsunami  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...

Quick-fire Questions with the Shortlisted Authors

Mohsin Hamid     1. At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? I think I would always have wanted to be a writer if I knew one could be a writer. But it wasn’t until I reached university, around the age of 18 or so, that I first began to imagine...