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January 31, 2011

Orwell Prize to blog George Orwell’s Wigan Pier diaries

Orwell Prize to blog Orwell's Wigan Pier diaries, 75 years after they were written Read more

January 31, 2011

Newsletter: Blogging Orwell’s Wigan Pier diary

We’re delighted to announce that from today, Monday 31st January, we’ll be ‘post-blogging’ Orwell’s 1936 Wigan Pier diaries. Between 31st January and 25th March 1936, Orwell travelled around the Midlands and the north of England, keeping a diary which would Read more

January 21, 2011

Newsletter: Orwell on Kipling

Rudyard Kipling died 75 years ago this week (on 18th January 1936). Orwell wrote an essay on Kipling (for Horizon in 1942), which you can now read on our website. Both writers were born in India, and wrote about the Read more

January 14, 2011

Newsletter: Entries close 19th January

Happy New Year – and with the start of the new year comes the end of the submission period for the Orwell Prize 2011. Read more