Tom Parfitt
@parfitt_tom
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Non-fiction writer about people, places, belonging. Author of the memoir High Caucasus, https://t.co/fNBSShdY31. Journalism @thetimes on Russia etc.
Joined August 2011
I went to Huslia on the Koyukuk river in interior Alaska to report on what locals think about Trump’s plan to build a mining road through the hunting grounds of the native Koyukon people: https://t.co/TMgurkyxSC With many thanks for support from @pulitzercenter
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A 211-mile road accessing $7.5bn copper deposits threatens the fragile ecosystem which the Koyukon people rely on for their food and survival
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Really glad to be talking about the Russian North Caucasus at a Sohemian Society event in London next month. All welcome, tickets here: https://t.co/EW0ge8qFX7
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Emotionally scarred after witnessing the bloody climax of the Beslan school siege in Russia's North Caucasus, in which 314 hostages died, Tom Parfitt set out on a journey. In “High Caucasus”, he sh...
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Delighted that I’ll be co-tutoring a Narrative Non-Fiction residential writing course @ArvonFoundation from Nov 3 to 8 with the great @LoisPryce and @NooSaroWiwa. It’s sold out, but you can join the waiting list! https://t.co/o5D8wO6IBA
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Join highly-acclaimed authors and tutors Lois Pryce and Tom Parfitt in an atmospheric rural setting to explore the broad and exciting genre of narrative non-fiction. From memoir and reportage to...
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Looks like @AlecLuhn - now rescued - spent five or six nights in the open after getting injured, with little food or water. That's one hell of a survival feat, Alec. https://t.co/lGvlhyih0h
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– Vi er veldig, veldig glade! Tusen takk til alle i Norge som har bidratt til å finne ham, sier kona Veronika Silchenko.
Just saw the extremely concerning news that friend Alec Luhn has gone missing while hiking in Norway's Folgefonna national park. Please contact his wife Veronika if you have news: https://t.co/KjVHPBEYm5 Come on, @AlecLuhn, bring home a survival story.
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Luhn's wife, Veronika Silchenko, told CBS News he has a leg injury but is in good condition. "I think it's a miracle. I'm so grateful to all the people who were involved in the rescue," Silchenko said. "It's the best day of my life."
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Alec Luhn's wife told CBS News he has a leg injury but is in good condition after going missing during a hike on a Norwegian glacier.
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Thank goodness, @AlecLuhn has been found alive and well!
UPDATE: They have found Alec Luhn alive. He is awake and appears well. He seems in good condition. He is being transported by rescuers now. Thank you to all the amazing people who have done anything to help. There will be more updates as we know more.
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Just saw the extremely concerning news that friend Alec Luhn has gone missing while hiking in Norway's Folgefonna national park. Please contact his wife Veronika if you have news: https://t.co/KjVHPBEYm5 Come on, @AlecLuhn, bring home a survival story.
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Out this week, Lana Estemirova's beautifully written memoir, Please Live - about her relationship with her mother, Natasha, the Chechen rights activist, murdered in 2009. It's also a unique insight into Russia's long war on Chechnya: https://t.co/YBstf2BOs0
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Really looking forward to interviewing Howard Amos about his exquisitely-observed and searching book "Russia Starts Here" tomorrow - do join us, some tickets left!
If you're in London on Thursday, please do consider coming to hear me speak at @Pushkin_House - I'll be talking about my book 'Russia Starts Here' with the wonderful writer & journalist @parfitt_tom. Tickets here: https://t.co/iMvfUKraaM
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Sadly, I’m already committed that evening, but if you’re free, do go along to @Pushkin_House for this: @howardamos has written a great book and he and @parfitt_tom are fine storytellers and nuanced observers of Russia
Join us for the first author talk of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2025! @howardamos and @parfitt_tom will discuss “Russia Starts Here” – a nuanced, anthropological exploration of modern Russia through the prism of Pskov Region. https://t.co/H0rVUpTm5b
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Delighted to be chairing this talk with Howard Amos in London on June 5 about his brilliant book, Russia Starts Here. Please join us! Details/tickets:
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Talk: Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire. Howard Amos in Conversation with Tom Parfitt
Excited to announce our Book Prize events! 📍5 Jun: @howardamos & @parfitt_tom 📍10 Jun: @DrRadchenko & @GulnazSharaf 📍13 Jun: @ArchTait and Stephen Dalziel 📍16 Jun: @BenjaminNathans & @martinbright 📍18 Jun: Donald Rayfield & Ekaterina Schulmann Stay tuned - more to come!
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Big crowd in Norwich last night for @RobGMacfarlane talking about the galvanising power of accepting waterways and forests as conscious beings, deserving of rights, just as many indigenous people experience them. Separate bravo to co-hosts @patrick_barkham and the Wensum!
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This is brilliant. Come and listen to Rob in person at Epic Studios, Norwich, next Monday...
Hello — Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week. Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music. First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am. You can listen here: https://t.co/gnTIOQ0RkW
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Attention e-readers! My memoir High Caucasus is available from today for a limited time for £0.99! https://t.co/jBLqypZ4KA
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Iain Pears’s latest book is non-fiction and it’s wonderful. My review is in today’s Sunday Times @timesculture @TheTimesBooks https://t.co/HAWZKmcoRN
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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"I would venture to say he’s now one of the five or six best known writers to have emerged from Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century." https://t.co/CPfhpx8PKh
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The Soviet writer bore witness to the horrors of Russia's World War Two and the Shoah — and deserves a place in literary history, says scholar Maxim D Shrayer. He recommends the best books by and...
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I know now I will also add High Caucasus to my Best of 2025 book list! It is an exquisitely well-written book that tells the remarkable story of journalist @parfitt_tom's perilous 1,000-mile trek from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea to help him find peace after witnessing the
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NEW We asked judge Tom Parfitt to talk us through the six-book shortlist for the title of Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year https://t.co/CXIthFWu8F Cc. @parfitt_tom, @stanfordstravel, @noosarowiwa, @herdyshepherd1, @clarammond, @tchesshyre, @phoebersmith, @jeffyoungwriter
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The six-book shortlist for the title of Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year, as recommended by judge and author Tom Parfitt
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