True Stories

The seven best texts from the first globally oriented journalism award, the True Story Award 2020/21. From 1,127 reports in over 20 languages from 103 countries. With a foreword by Rania Abouzeid. Jacobo García writes about a stretch of coastline in the Caribbean between Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, where cocaine falls from the sky. Nina Schick discusses two old postcards that shed new light on her father's suicide. Sarah A. Topol tells the story of teacher Futhu, who fights against forgetting and aims to save his people, the Rohingya, through education. Additionally, there are insights into an Iranian prison by Banafesh Samgiss, the reconstruction of a Russian art scandal by Yulia Vishnevets and Misha Yashnov, portraits of the forgotten during the pandemic in Spain by Pablo de Llano, and the story of a Chinese migrant worker who finds happiness in a library.