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
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’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 wins Orwell prize for journalism
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 wins Orwell prize for novel taking in Covid-19 and Brexit
August 2020
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
'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: '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
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
'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
Suzanne Moore of the Guardian wins Orwell prize for journalism
Two books about Northern Irish Troubles win Orwell prize 2019
June 2018
‘Not every day was like Trainspotting’: Orwell prizewinner Darren McGarvey on class, addiction and redemption
Orwell books prize goes to Poverty Safari by Scottish rapper Loki
May 2018
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
Attlee, Labour and the battle against austerity
Citizen Clem: 'extraordinary biography' of Clement Attlee wins Orwell prize
May 2017
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