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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

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 £3,000Read more

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

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 ofRead more

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, AnimalRead more

Press release: Irrawaddy Literary Festival

Burma’s first international literary festival featuring a host of renowned authors will take place in Rangoon in February. The Irrawaddy Literary festival at the Inya Lake Hotel will showcase the best of international and local writing from February 1-3. TheRead more

Orwell Prize statement

Over the past few days articles have been published in the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times which make inaccurate statements about the Orwell Prize. The judging process of the Orwell Prize is entirely independent and theRead more

Orwell Prize 2013 Announces Judges, Opens for Entries

• 2013 Prize opens for entries – ENTER NOW • Baroness Joan Bakewell, Nikita Lalwani and Arifa Akbar to judge Book Prize • Nicholas Timmins and Jo Glanville to judge Journalism Prize • Blog Prize suspended this year for reformRead more

The Orwell Prize launches ‘Buy a book for Burma’ appeal

Buy a book for Burma In its 20th year the Orwell Prize is retracing Orwell’s steps. We will be participating in in Wigan based writing project for youths and for the first time ever we are going abroad: to Burma.Read more

Remembering Jura

Richard Blair, Orwell’s only son, remembers his time on the island with his father After my mother Eileen, died in march 1945 my father was rather at a loss as to what to do next. So after a series ofRead more

A summer on Jura

By Oliver Bullough, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books in 2011 Barnhill, where George Orwell wrote 1984, is foursquare and whitewashed, sheltered in a hollow, with a view south over the sea to the khaki hills of Argyll. ItRead more

Eric Hobsbawm: thought and worked until the end

Director of The Orwell Prize, Professor Jean Seaton, pays tribute to the historian who died yesterday in London Eric Hobsbawm, who has died at 95, was a member of the Orwell Trust (which started the Orwell Prize). This was puzzling:Read more

Richard Horton: A Thousand Flowers

Richard Horton, one of the judges for the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2010 and winner of the Blog Prize 2009 as ‘Jack Night’, looks at the blogging year. For me, the read is over. The short list for the BlogRead more

Gavin Freeguard: Orwell Lecture 2007

Michael Rosen: Orwell Lecture 2007 – The Politics of Response (full text) A brief summary of the Orwell Lecture 2007, ‘The Politics of Response’, given by Michael Rosen. ‘Beyond the End of the Corridor’ Michael Rosen began by assuring usRead more

Gavin Freeguard: Orwell, ID Cards, the Citizen and the State

A brief summary of the Orwell Prize 2008 Launch Debate. ‘Nosey Parker’ Heather Brooke was surprised at the prevalence of CCTV cameras in the UK compared to the US. As a journalist, she said, she always tried to ‘turn theRead more