Clare Sambrook
{{Short description|English-Irish journalist and author}}
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| notable_works = Hide and Seek (2005)
| awards = Bevins Prize (2010)
Paul Foot Award (2010)
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Clare Sambrook is an English-Irish freelance journalist and author. Sambrook is best known for her work concerning the "End Child Detention Now" campaign, which won her the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize.
Education and career
In high school, Sambrook won the Vellacott History Prize from the University of Cambridge. She later studied at Cambridge.{{cite web|title=An Interview with Clare Sambrook|url=https://lacuna.org.uk/openlacuna/an-interview-with-clare-sambrook/|website=Lacuna Magazine|access-date=27 December 2017|date=15 April 2014}}
After university, Sambrook began working for the John Lewis Gazette, then worked for the Haymarket Group. She later was employed by The Daily Telegraph newspaper, before leaving to become a freelance journalist so that she could concentrate on investigations.
Canongate published Sambrook's first novel, Hide and Seek, in the UK in 2005. The book is written from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy called Harry who had to deal with the aftermath of the abduction of his five-year-old brother, Daniel.{{cite news|last1=Rafferty|first1=Terrence|title='Hide & Seek': Without a Trace|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/books/review/hide-seek39-without-a-trace.html|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=28 December 2017|date=7 August 2005}}
In 2010, Sambrook won the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for her articles that exposed government policies concerning the arrest and detention of asylum-seeking families and for her work with the "End Child Detention Now" campaign, which she co-founded.{{cite web|title=Clare Sambrook|url=https://www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/clare-sambrook/|website=The Orwell Prize|access-date=28 December 2017|date=20 March 2013}}
She was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2013 and 2015.{{cite web|title=Clare Sambrook|url=https://www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/clare-sambrook-2/|website=The Orwell Prize|access-date=29 December 2017|date=25 March 2015}}
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