Adrienne Loftus Parkins
@theasianword.bsky.social
Trustee, Moore Prize for #HumanRights Writing ( @mooreprize.bsky.social )
Formerly Asia House Festival of Asian Lit, M-Fest, Bangkok Edge
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Formerly Asia House Festival of Asian Lit, M-Fest, Bangkok Edge
World literature, festivals & awards.
Canadian British European
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“This was a powerful narrative of how the war interupted ordinary lives in #Ukraine. The writing is vivid and it is completely extraordinary how the collective finished the book after Amelina was killed by a Russian bomb.” #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights writing.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“This was a powerful narrative of how the war interupted ordinary lives in #Ukraine. The writing is vivid and it is completely extraordinary how the collective finished the book after Amelina was killed by a Russian bomb.” #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights writing.
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The Jury said: “Most of the public is not aware of the deep issues surrounding international adoption, particularly in conflict zones. This is a compelling story that has resonance for adoption in other crises.” #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The Jury said: “Most of the public is not aware of the deep issues surrounding international adoption, particularly in conflict zones. This is a compelling story that has resonance for adoption in other crises.” #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
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Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social turns the lens toward accountability itself, tracing the difficult, dangerous pursuit of justice against those who wield authority without restraint. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social turns the lens toward accountability itself, tracing the difficult, dangerous pursuit of justice against those who wield authority without restraint. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
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The Christopher G Moore Foundation is delighted to announce the #2025MoorePrize shortlist of the best books with a #HumanRights theme;
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The Christopher G Moore Foundation is delighted to announce the #2025MoorePrize shortlist of the best books with a #HumanRights theme;
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July 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Worth looking into: Untold Narratives is hiring!
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August 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Worth looking into: Untold Narratives is hiring!
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In long listed book, An Inconvenient Place, Jonathan Littell & photog Antoine d’Agata began surveying the site of the 1941 massacre of Kyiv Jews when war came to interrupt their work. It resumed in Bucha, infamous after the discovery of atrocities of the Russian forces. #2025MoorePrize #HumanRights
June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In long listed book, An Inconvenient Place, Jonathan Littell & photog Antoine d’Agata began surveying the site of the 1941 massacre of Kyiv Jews when war came to interrupt their work. It resumed in Bucha, infamous after the discovery of atrocities of the Russian forces. #2025MoorePrize #HumanRights
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Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, EveryBody Counts by @blnadeau.bsky.social is a ground-breaking investigation that follows the money to reveal a secretive world where lives don't matter. #HumanRights #Writing
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, EveryBody Counts by @blnadeau.bsky.social is a ground-breaking investigation that follows the money to reveal a secretive world where lives don't matter. #HumanRights #Writing
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If you're anywhere near #Edinburgh this summer, check out the International Book Festival @edbookfest.bsky.social. Tickets go on sale tomorrow!
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
Surekha Davies, Omar El Akkad & Nicola Kelly: Who Counts as Human?
From Fri 15 Aug - Three writers grappling with the toxic rhetoric humans apply to one another explore how the boundaries of humanity are set to exclude certain communities…
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June 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If you're anywhere near #Edinburgh this summer, check out the International Book Festival @edbookfest.bsky.social. Tickets go on sale tomorrow!
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
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Long listed @2025MoorePrize, Anywhere But Here by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. It is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues & shocking injustices of our time. #HumanRights #Writing
June 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Long listed @2025MoorePrize, Anywhere But Here by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. It is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues & shocking injustices of our time. #HumanRights #Writing
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Long listed for @2025MoorePrize, Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social Describes how, with a blend of powerful eyewitness reporting & gripping history, the possibilities of bringing war criminals to justice have been transformed.
#HumanRights #Writing
#HumanRights #Writing
June 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Long listed for @2025MoorePrize, Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social Describes how, with a blend of powerful eyewitness reporting & gripping history, the possibilities of bringing war criminals to justice have been transformed.
#HumanRights #Writing
#HumanRights #Writing
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Anywhere But Here is one of the remarkable books long listed for the #2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights #Writing
Journalist and former Home Office insider @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social's "Anywhere But Here: How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All" chronicles the predicaments of people who escape horrors and arrive in Britain only to encounter an unjust, inhuman, and broken asylum system. 3/n
Elliott & Thompson | Anywhere But Here
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June 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Anywhere But Here is one of the remarkable books long listed for the #2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights #Writing
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Long listed Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by @barbarademick.bsky.social questions China's 1-child policy the ethics of int’l adoption & the assumptions/narratives we hold about the quality of lives lived in the East & the West
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
June 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Long listed Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by @barbarademick.bsky.social questions China's 1-child policy the ethics of int’l adoption & the assumptions/narratives we hold about the quality of lives lived in the East & the West
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
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Wondering what to read next? Try one of these remarkable #2025MoorePrize longlisted books.
#HumanRights
#HumanRights
June 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Wondering what to read next? Try one of these remarkable #2025MoorePrize longlisted books.
#HumanRights
#HumanRights
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Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, Saad Mohseni, author of #RadioFreeAfghanistan will take part in a panel at Jaipur Literature Festival @britishlibrary tomorrow: Broadcasts from Kabul-Narratives of Hope. Looking forward to that & many of the other talks on the programme.
June 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, Saad Mohseni, author of #RadioFreeAfghanistan will take part in a panel at Jaipur Literature Festival @britishlibrary tomorrow: Broadcasts from Kabul-Narratives of Hope. Looking forward to that & many of the other talks on the programme.
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I am so honoured to be on this stellar list, in such remarkable company. My takeaway: people feel justice matters, which I am happy for
Congratulations to #2025MoorePrize longlisted authors: Saad Mohseni, Jonathan Littell, Antoine d’Agata, Barbara Demick, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social @blnadeau.bsky.social Neha Dixit @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social @sofioksanen.com & the late Victoria Amelina
#HumanRights Writing
#HumanRights Writing
June 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I am so honoured to be on this stellar list, in such remarkable company. My takeaway: people feel justice matters, which I am happy for
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2025 longlisted author of Radio Free Afghanistan @saadmohseni.bsky.social speaking at #JLFLondon on Saturday, along with @lucyhannah.bsky.social @batoolhaidari.bsky.social @georginagodwin.bsky.social & Gulhan Durzai
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
June 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
2025 longlisted author of Radio Free Afghanistan @saadmohseni.bsky.social speaking at #JLFLondon on Saturday, along with @lucyhannah.bsky.social @batoolhaidari.bsky.social @georginagodwin.bsky.social & Gulhan Durzai
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
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Finnish Estonian novelist librettist & playwright @sofioksanen.com is one of the most awarded literary authors of Northern Europe. Her book Same River Twice about how Russia’s weaponizing of sexual violence plays a crucial role in its current geopolitical strategy, is longlisted for #2025MoorePrize
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Finnish Estonian novelist librettist & playwright @sofioksanen.com is one of the most awarded literary authors of Northern Europe. Her book Same River Twice about how Russia’s weaponizing of sexual violence plays a crucial role in its current geopolitical strategy, is longlisted for #2025MoorePrize
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Delighted to see AN INCONVENIENT PLACE by Jonathan Littell & Antoine D'Agata, tr. Charlotte Mandell on the @mooreprize.bsky.social longlist!
Announcing the Long List for #2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing; the 9 best books published in the past 12 months with a #humanrights theme.
June 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Delighted to see AN INCONVENIENT PLACE by Jonathan Littell & Antoine D'Agata, tr. Charlotte Mandell on the @mooreprize.bsky.social longlist!
Fantastic book on the history and culture of Japan by Lesley Downer one of the UK’s foremost experts on the subject
June 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Fantastic book on the history and culture of Japan by Lesley Downer one of the UK’s foremost experts on the subject
Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, Saad Mohseni, author of #RadioFreeAfghanistan will take part in a panel at Jaipur Literature Festival @britishlibrary tomorrow: Broadcasts from Kabul-Narratives of Hope. Looking forward to that & many of the other talks on the programme.
June 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, Saad Mohseni, author of #RadioFreeAfghanistan will take part in a panel at Jaipur Literature Festival @britishlibrary tomorrow: Broadcasts from Kabul-Narratives of Hope. Looking forward to that & many of the other talks on the programme.
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“When you think the world as we experience it is about to be swept away, the boring work of ameliorating suffering or managing resources can be shelved in favor of exciting fantasies about transcendence.” —an interview with @harikunzru.bsky.social
Scratching the Surface | Hari Kunzru, Willa Glickman
What we’ve come to call “election denial” is, of course, a conspiracy theory, and support for that is an article of faith for many Trumpists who want to work in the administration, so to a greater or…
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June 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“When you think the world as we experience it is about to be swept away, the boring work of ameliorating suffering or managing resources can be shelved in favor of exciting fantasies about transcendence.” —an interview with @harikunzru.bsky.social
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In August 2023, Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared while investigating the secret detention of civilians by Russia.
A year later, her body was returned. Tortured. Dead in captivity.
Today, we tell her story. #ViktoriiaProject 1/
A year later, her body was returned. Tortured. Dead in captivity.
Today, we tell her story. #ViktoriiaProject 1/
April 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In August 2023, Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared while investigating the secret detention of civilians by Russia.
A year later, her body was returned. Tortured. Dead in captivity.
Today, we tell her story. #ViktoriiaProject 1/
A year later, her body was returned. Tortured. Dead in captivity.
Today, we tell her story. #ViktoriiaProject 1/
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Over the moon that 'Anywhere But Here' has been longlisted for the @mooreprize.bsky.social. Hoping this exposure will mean more people read about the realities unfolding on our doorsteps.
June 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Over the moon that 'Anywhere But Here' has been longlisted for the @mooreprize.bsky.social. Hoping this exposure will mean more people read about the realities unfolding on our doorsteps.
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New review at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by @susanbk.bsky.social on a new book by Barbara Demick & the 10th anniversary reissue of one by @letahongfincher.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/daug... cc @chinarhyming.bsky.social @nuvoices.bsky.social
Daughters Are Not Like Spilled Water | Los Angeles Review of Books
Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews recent books about the aftermath of China’s one-child policy and the experience of women in contemporary China.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New review at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by @susanbk.bsky.social on a new book by Barbara Demick & the 10th anniversary reissue of one by @letahongfincher.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/daug... cc @chinarhyming.bsky.social @nuvoices.bsky.social