Past events

Orwell Lecture 2011: Alan Rusbridger – Hacking away at the truth

Speaker Alan Rusbridger (editor-in-chief, Guardian News and Media) Details Organised by the Orwell Trust and Birkbeck College, University of London The Guardian has been investigating Read more

Thursday 10 November, 2011
6:00pm

Darwin Theatre, University College London
Malet Place
London WC1E 6BT

Launch Debate 2012: Writing the Riots

Image from Beacon Radio on flickr (Creative Commons) Speakers Nicolas Kent (artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre) Paul Lewis (special projects editor of The Guardian, Read more

Wednesday 9 November, 2011
6:30pm

Frontline Club
London
W2 1QJ

Cheltenham 2011: The Political Network

Speakers Graeme Archer (winner of the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2011) Oliver Kamm (The Times, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2009) Details Political Read more

Sunday 16 October, 2011
6:00pm

Imperial Square
Cheltenham
GL50 1QA

Cheltenham 2011: Victorian Values

Speakers Jose Harris (Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford) Owen Jones (author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class) Shiv Malik (journalist, Read more

Saturday 15 October, 2011
10:00am

Montpellier Gardens
Cheltenham
GL50 1SD

Orwell Prize at the Cheltenham Literature Festival

The Orwell Prize is delighted to be taking at least two events to The Times’ Cheltenham Literature Festival for the first time. We filmed Peter Read more


9:59am

Cheltenham Literature Festival
109 Bath Road, Cheltenham
GL53 7LS

Buxton 2011: Is politics corrupted by corrupted language?

Speakers Colette Douglas-Home (journalist) Mark Douglas-Home (journalist, former editor of the Glasgow Herald) Linda Grant (Orange Prize-winning novelist, books include We Had It So Good) Read more

Wednesday 13 July, 2011
10:30am

Palace Hotel
Palace Road, Buxton
SK17 6AG

Awards Ceremony 2011

This year’s awards ceremony will start at 6.30pm (drinks), with the winners being announced from 7pm.The ceremony is being held at Church House, Westminster, which Read more

Tuesday 17 May, 2011
6:30pm

Church House
Dean's Yard, Westminster
London SW1P 3NZ

Orwell Prize Shortlist 2011: Announcement and Debate

Speakers Peter Hitchens (winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2010) Sunder Katwala (general secretary of the Fabian Society, longlisted for the Blog Prize 2011) Read more

Tuesday 26 April, 2011
6:30pm

Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf
South Colonnade, London
E14 5EP

Oxford 2011: Does it make a difference who funds the arts?

Speakers Sir Mark Jones (director, Victoria and Albert Museum) Karen Freyer (managing director, New Deal of the Mind; former journalist with CNN, Newsnight and TIME) Read more

Tuesday 5 April, 2011
12:00pm

HSBC Premier Marquee
Christ Church College, Oxford
OX1 1DP

Oxford 2011: Orwell vs Kipling

Speakers Chaired by Jean Seaton (director of the Orwell Prize) Orwell: Paul Anderson (journalist, author, academic, editor of Orwell in Tribune: “As I Please” and Read more

Sunday 3 April, 2011
4:00pm

HSBC Premier Marquee
Christ Church College, Oxford
OX1 1DP

Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2011

We’re delighted to be taking two events to this year’s Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival (2nd-10th April). It’ll be our fourth year at Oxford – Read more

Saturday 2 April, 2011
10:00am

Christ Church College
Oxford
OX1 1DP

Orwell Prize Longlist 2011: Announcement and Debate

Speakers David Allen Green (‘Jack of Kent’, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2010; judge, Blog Prize 2011) Richard Horton (‘Jack Night’, winner of Read more

Wednesday 30 March, 2011
6:30pm

Preiskel & Co LLP
5 Fleet Place, London
EC4M 7RD

Emirates LitFest Orwell Lecture 2011: Gavin Esler – George Orwell as a prophet of 21st Century culture

Speakers Gavin Esler (journalist, author) Details Staged by the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in association with the Orwell Trust. Award-winning BBC broadcaster and novelist, Read more

Thursday 10 March, 2011
7:30am

Al Ras 2
InterContinental Hotel
Dubai 45777

Orwell Lecture 2010: Ferdinand Mount – Orwell and the Oligarchs

Speaker Ferdinand Mount (author, novelist, former head of the policy unit at 10 Downing Street and former judge of the Orwell Prize) Details Orwell and Read more

Friday 26 November, 2010
5:00pm

Beveridge Hall, Senate House
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX

Orwell and Russia

Speakers Masha Karp (journalist, translator of Orwell’s Animal Farm into Russian) John Lloyd (contributing editor and former Moscow bureau chief, Financial Times) Introduced by Gavin Read more

Thursday 18 November, 2010
7:00pm

Travel Bookshop
13-15 Blenheim Crescent, Notting Hill, London
W11 2EE

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