Ghosts of the Tsunami wins Folio prize for deeply felt reportage of 2011 disaster

Richard Lloyd Parry takes £20,000 award for book that brings together six years spent collecting firsthand accounts of the catastrophe’s impact

It knocked the Earth six-and-a-half inches off its axis and moved Japan four metres closer to the US: a “harrowing and inspiring” account of the 2011 tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people in Japan has won the Folio prize.

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