Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

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Charlotte McDonald-Gibson is a British [1] journalist, editor, and author. [2] Her first book Cast Away was published in 2016, her second book Far Out was published in 2022.

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Career

McDonald-Gibson is a journalist whose career has included five years of work reporting on the European migrant crisis. [3] She has worked an editor for Time Magazine and has been a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. [4] She has also written for The New York Times and Monocle magazine. [5]

Publications

McDonald-Gibson is the author of the 2016 non-fiction book Cast Away, that retells the story of five refugee's escape to Europe. [2] [6] The book was described by Princess Haya bint Hussein as "honest and heartfelt". [7]

She is also the author of the 2022 non fiction book Far Out: Encounters with Extremists, published by Granta Books. [8]

Personal life

In 2017, she was based in Brussels [4] and more recently lived in The Hague. [5]

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References

  1. Bachner, Elizabeth (September 2018). "Review: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis". International Sociology . 33 (5): 641–643. doi:10.1177/0268580918792175. ISSN   0268-5809.
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