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Orwell prize

June 2024

  • Hisham Matar

    Hisham Matar wins Orwell prize for political fiction

    The Pulitzer winner’s third novel My Friends is based on an event from 1984, when officials opened fire on protesters at the Libyan embassy in London

June 2023

  • Orwell prize winners Peter Apps (left) and Tom Crewe (right).

    Two debut books win Orwell prizes for political writing

    Peter Apps’ magnificent account of the Grenfell fire tragedy and Tom Crewe’s historical novel about pioneering Victorian gay rights advocates will each receive £3,000

October 2022

  • George Orwell.

    George Orwell’s classic works to be published on Substack

    Down and Out in Paris and London will start the project and be delivered to subscribers in ‘coffee break’ segments

July 2022

  • George Monbiot

    George Monbiot wins Orwell prize for journalism

  • Claire Keegan.

    Claire Keegan wins Orwell prize for novel about 1980s Ireland

June 2021

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Anywhere but Westminster: 10 years in 10 minutes – video

  • Ali Smith, Photographed in her garden in Cambridge. Ali Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Ali Smith is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, and Summer as well as Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018.

    Ali Smith wins Orwell prize for novel taking in Covid-19 and Brexit

August 2020

  • Jessica Johnson

    Student who wrote story about biased algorithm has results downgraded

    Jessica Johnson, who won Orwell youth prize for dystopian tale, hopes U-turn will restore university place

July 2020

  • Kate Clanchy MBE, writer, teacher, poet photographed at Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford

    'The prize of all prizes': Teacher Kate Clanchy's memoir wins Orwell award

    Judges praise Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, which draws on three decades working in schools, as ‘moving, funny, and full of love’

June 2020

  • Bernardine Evaristo at home

    Bernardine Evaristo: 'It’s shocking that people don’t understand Britain’s involvement in slavery'

    Ahead of Windrush day, Orwell shortlisted writers Evaristo and Amelia Gentleman talk about politics, art and giving a voice to the powerless

May 2020

  • ‘Illuminating major social and political themes’ … Bernardine Evaristo (left) and Lucy Ellmann.

    Orwell prize for fiction shortlist replays 2019 Booker prize contest

    Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other will vie with Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport for political writing award

April 2020

  • ‘Making political writing into an art’ … John Hurt in a still from the 1984 film of Orwell’s novel.

    'Biography' of Nineteen Eighty-Four leads Orwell prize longlist

    Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth is among the contenders for the political writing award named after the dystopian classic’s author

June 2019

  • The Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore

    Suzanne Moore of the Guardian wins Orwell prize for journalism

  • Anna Burns

    Two books about Northern Irish Troubles win Orwell prize 2019

June 2018

  • Darren McGarvey, AKA Loki

    ‘Not every day was like Trainspotting’: Orwell prizewinner Darren McGarvey on class, addiction and redemption

  • Darren McGarvey, aka Loki, who has been appointed “rapper-in-residence” with Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit. Seen here rapping to a men’s group about domestic violence at a community centre in Aloa, Stirlingshire, Scotland UK 23/11/2015 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY sgealbadh (press button below or see details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution, Murdo Macleods repro fees apply. A22CZF

    Orwell books prize goes to Poverty Safari by Scottish rapper Loki

May 2018

  • Ali Smith

    Ali Smith novel could be first to win Orwell prize in a decade after making shortlist

    Winter is only the sixth novel ever to be shortlisted for the Orwell, and is up against acclaimed non-fiction titles including The Islamic Enlightenment and Testosterone Rex

June 2017

  • Electioneering<br>British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1883 - 1967) electioneering in Priory Court, Walthamstow, London, seen here with a group of children. (Photo by Fisher/Getty Images)

    Attlee, Labour and the battle against austerity

  • Clement Attlee, pictured chatting to constituents in his Limehouse constituency during the July 1945 general election.

    Citizen Clem: 'extraordinary biography' of Clement Attlee wins Orwell prize

May 2017

  • A banner hung from Liverpool’s Saint George’s Hall after the Hillsborough inquest verdict was delivered on April 26, 2016 – 27 years after the disaster.

    Hillsborough, Brexit and gun control: 2017 Orwell prize shortlist announced

    With Orwell back in headlines due to the rise of ‘alternative facts’ and ‘fake news’, six books with ‘something prescient to say’ are up for best political writing prize
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