February 4, 2011
Newsletter: ‘Did not want to spend night in streets’
We’re now a few days into our project of blogging Orwell’s Wigan Pier diaries from 1936, 75 years to the day after each was written. Orwell is currently in Manchester, and will be heading for Wigan itself shortly. Granta Magazine Read more
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
December 17, 2010
Newsletter: Merry Christmas!
Before this newsletter takes a break over the festive season, we have a few gifts for you. Read more
December 10, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell’s Christmas Pudding
With Christmas only a couple of weeks away, your thoughts may be turning to preparations for the big day. And if you’re still in need of a Christmas pudding, Orwell may be able to help. In 1946, Orwell was commissioned Read more
December 8, 2010
Taiwan Orwell conference calls for papers
Call for papers from 'George Orwell: Asian and Global Perspectives', to be held in Taiwan. Read more
December 3, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell and the Oligarchs – watch the Orwell Lecture
We’ve now uploaded the full video of this year’s Orwell Lecture, ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’, given by Ferdinand Mount. Ferdy – a former Orwell Prize judge (2009), former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, former editor of the Times Read more
November 26, 2010
Newsletter: Watch our Orwell and Russia Discussion
Full video of our event on Orwell and Russia is now available on our website and YouTube channel. Masha Karp, journalist and translator of a 2001 edition of Animal Farm, and John Lloyd, contributing editor and former Moscow bureau chief Read more
November 19, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell Lecture 2010 next week – Ferdinand Mount
This year’s George Orwell Memorial Lecture takes place next Friday, 26th November. Ferdinand Mount – former Orwell Prize judge (2009), former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and novelist and author – Read more
November 12, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell and Russia – event next week
Newsletter: Orwell and Russia - event next week | Orwell’s work was highly critical of Soviet Russia and its uncritical adherents, made clear in such works as his proposed preface to Animal Farm. Read more
October 21, 2010
Orwell Prize 2011 OPEN – judges announced
Jim Naughtie, Ursula Owen and Will Skidelsky to judge Book Prize Martin Bright and Michela Wrong judge journalism, ‘Jack of Kent’ and Gaby Hinsliff blogs Orwell Prize launches new website and new app The Orwell Prize 2011 opened for entries Read more
May 19, 2010
Orwell Prize 2010 winners announced
Andrea Gillies wins Book Prize for Keeper, an account of living with Alzheimer’s Peter Hitchens wins Journalism Prize for his foreign reporting in the Mail on Sunday Pseudonymous social worker Winston Smith wins Blog Prize for ‘Working with the Underclass’ Read more
April 15, 2010
Orwell Prize 2010 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Orwell Prize 2010, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, were announced at the annual shortlist debate at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf, this evening, Thursday 15th April at 7pm. Director of the Prize, Jean Seaton, revealed Read more