Richard Lloyd Parry

In April 2003, he was the first to report that the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, the US soldier reportedly rescued during the war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, was not the heroic story told by the US military, but a staged operation that alarmed patients and the doctors who had struggled to save her life.^[5]

In November 2009, he was accused by a group of Thai politicians of the crime of

In September 2010, he and David McNeill of The Independent were briefly arrested in North Korea, after discovering a secret street market in the capital Pyongyang.^[7] The incident inspired a controversy on the website NK News. Lloyd Parry defended McNeill and himself from accusations that they misrepresented the situation in North Korea and put their local guides at risk of punishment.^[8]

Books

Parry has published three non-fiction books:

• In the Time of Madness was published in 2005. As well as presenting an eye-witness account of the events leading up to and following the end of the Suharto regime, it also dramatised the personal crisis of a young reporter, Lloyd Parry, facing the perils and excitements of death and violence. Lloyd Parry began visiting Indonesia in the late 1990s, and witnessed much of the violence that preceded and followed the fall of Suharto, including headhunting and cannibalism on the island of Borneo. In September 1999 when he was covering the
  referendum on independence in East Timor, he was one of a small group of journalists who took sanctuary in the United Nations compound in Dili
  as it was surrounded by murderous pro-Indonesia militiamen. The book describes how Lloyd Parry's early confidence quickly turned to fear, and his guilt and shame after escaping from East Timor on an Australian evacuation flight. "I imagined that these experiences had imparted something to my character, an invisible shell which would stand me in good stead", he wrote. "But then I went to East Timor, where I discovered that such experience is never externalised, only absorbed, and that it builds up inside one, like a toxin. In East Timor, I became afraid, and couldn't control my fear. I ran away, and afterwards I was ashamed."
• People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman was published in February 2011 and tells the story of a young British woman who was killed and dismembered in Japan in 2000; of the man accused of killing her,
  The Guardian as "a compelling book, 10 years in the making, rich in intelligence and insight."^[10] Kirkus Reviews called the book "a fresh, compelling read for fans of true crime and slowly unfolding mysteries."^[11]
• Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone was published in 2017.^[12]

Weblog

Lloyd Parry also contributes a

Awards and honours

• 2005
  What The Papers Say Awards, Foreign Correspondent of the Year^[13]
• 2006
  Dolman Best Travel Book Award
  , shortlist for In the Time of Madness
• 2011
  Samuel Johnson Prize, longlist for People Who Eat Darkness^[14]
• 2012 Orwell Prize, shortlist for People Who Eat Darkness^[15]
• 2018
  Folio Prize, winner for Ghosts of the Tsunami^[16]