June 14, 2013
A week for Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is supported by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly, AM Heath and Richard Blair (Orwell’s son). Following its 64th publication anniversary on Sunday sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four spiked amid the Read more
May 30, 2013
The Orwell Prize in Manchester
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is supported by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly, AM Heath and Richard Blair (Orwell’s son). We’re thrilled to announce our first event with The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, hosted Read more
May 15, 2013
Orwell Prize 2013 Winners Announced
Andrew Norfolk and Tom Bergin share the Orwell Prize for Journalism for their work for The Times and Reuters respectively A. T. Williams wins the Orwell Book Prize for A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa (Jonathan Cape) Read more
May 10, 2013
Orwell and Society
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is supported by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly, AM Heath and Richard Blair (Orwell’s son). Last week The Orwell Prize went to Leeds Metropolitan University where our Operations Manager, Read more
April 26, 2013
Less than three weeks to go
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is supported by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly, AM Heath and Richard Blair (Orwell’s son). The winners of the 2013 Orwell Prize – our 20th prize – will be Read more
April 19, 2013
Shortlists announced
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is supported by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly, AM Heath and Richard Blair (Orwell’s son). The shortlists for the 2013 Orwell Prize were announced on Wednesday evening at The Read more
April 17, 2013
Orwell Prize 2013 Shortlists Announced
• The shortlists of seven books and six journalists expose grooming, torture and taxes; they probe the state of the NHS and the church; reporting the front line from Iran in the eighties to Aleppo now • Winners of £3,000 Read more
April 5, 2013
Will Self in Wigan
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is supported by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly, AM Heath and Richard Blair (Orwell’s son). Yesterday the Prize joined Will Self for a Wigan Pier Workshop at Sunshine Community Read more
March 21, 2013
2013 Longlists Announced
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is supported by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly, AM Heath and Richard Blair (Orwell’s son). The longlists for the 2013 Orwell Prize were announced online at midday yesterday. You Read more
March 20, 2013
Orwell Prize 2013 Longlists Announced
14 journalists: take on Starbucks and the NHS, expose grooming in Rochdale, atrocities in Aleppo and the UKs complicity in torture 12 books: journey from Mexico to Romania, examining the lives of the super rich and prisoners on death row, Read more
March 6, 2013
Another record breaking year for the Journalism Prize
Here’s your reading list for the next few months: we’ve published a full list of entries for the Orwell Prize 2013. Yet again, we’ve received a record number of submissions for the Journalism Prize, with 210 books and 155 journalists Read more
February 25, 2013
Press release: Taking Orwell back to Wigan
In January 1936 George Orwell journeyed to Wigan to report on poverty in the North of England. His book The Road to Wigan Pier was instrumental in raising public awareness of issues that contributed to a shift in policy of Read more
February 22, 2013
We’re going to Wigan
Next week The Orwell Prize and Stephen Armstrong (author of The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited) will go to Wigan to run a series of workshops for local teens at Sunshine House Community Centre. The writers going to teach include Read more
February 14, 2013
The Orwell Prize in Burma
Last week The Orwell Prize returned from Burma where we hosted panels and took books to the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, the first international event of its kind in the country. The festival attracted crowds of around 10,000 over three days Read more
January 30, 2013
Taking Orwell back to Burma
The Orwell Prize goes to Burma Leads panels and a lecture at Burma’s first international literary festival Aung San Suu Kyi, Timothy Garton Ash, Rory Stewart and Fergal Keane to speak Gives out hundreds of copies of Burmese Days, Animal Read more