American writer Ben Lerner has won this year’s Orwell prize for political fiction for Transcription, a novel exploring technology and memory. In nonfiction, the prize went to Karen Bartlett for The Escape... Read more »
Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. In each novel the protagonist is to some extent an Orwell surrogate doing things that Orwell did in places where Orwell had been. Here, somewhat unconvincingly,... Read more »
A novelist killed in the Ukraine war has won the Orwell prize for political writing. Victoria Amelina, who died in July 2023 from injuries sustained in a Russian bombing of a restaurant... Read more »
George Orwell’s correspondence, contracts and readers’ reports relating to his earliest novels are among historic papers that have been saved for the nation after an outcry over their initial dispersal. University College... Read more »
I invite you to delve into the haunting themes of oppression and individuality in Orwell's "1984," where every thought could lead to rebellion. What truths will you uncover? Read more »
He was a writer concerned with poverty, class and power; we will never know how George Orwell would feel about being commemorated on a coin. The Royal Mint had announced that the... Read more »
George Orwellâs archives provide an invaluable insight into one of the most influential British writers of the 20th century, casting light on how he produced his most memorable books, his sensitivity to... Read more »
Copies of George Orwellâs dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four have been arriving at an artistâs studio in Edinburgh for months. Every shape and size, posted from Ukraine, Hong Kong, Peru, Germany, Cape Cod... Read more »
George Orwell’s years as a colonial policeman in Burma in the 1920s preoccupied him for the rest of his life. Straight out of Eton, he was thrown into a world that mirrored... Read more »