2022 Journalism prize finalist

Daniel Trilling

The Guardian

Daniel Trilling is a freelance journalist and author who writes regularly for the Guardian, London Review of Books and others about migration, nationalism and human rights. His most recent book, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe, was shortlisted for the 2019 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing.

His shortlisted entries are:

• Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office
• Dark things are happening on Europe’s borders. Are they a sign of worse to come?
• Fear of refugees must not shape the response to Afghanistan’s crisis