The prize recognizes the best novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland, and comes with a cash prize of 50 ...

Please accept functional and analytics cookies to access this content. Every year the Orwell Foundation awards prizes to the writing and reporting which best meets the spirit of George Orwell's own ...

Presenter of Radio 4's Front Row, Mark Lawson, considers George Orwell's time at the BBC. John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like ...

The performer was awarded the prestigious Orwell Prize, given to political writers, for his raw expose of poverty in Britain. Judges described his writing as a heart-rending exploration of working ...

Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has won The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian, Gary is an editorial board member of the ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

Based on the Orwell Prize-winning novel inspired by true events, "Small Things" is set in 1980s Ireland at a time when the Catholic Church wields absolute power over the faithful. When taciturn ...

1984 ends not with a bang, but with a grammar lesson. Readers of George Orwell’s novel—still reeling, likely, from the brutal ...

Roy has been honored with Lannan Foundation’s Prize for Cultural Freedom (2002); the Sydney Peace Prize (2004); the George Orwell Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (2004); and the ...

The Orwell Bridge will be partially closed for the next two days as repairs continue. The entire westbound section of the A14 bridge, near Ipswich, will shut between 21:00 BST and 05:00 on Tuesday ...

The Amazon Echo is the answer to Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and [Orwell]’s Telescreen ... queue up a playlist, or read a Wikipedia entry, but there’s a definite lack of imagination ...

In February, Google and Mattel introduced their Hello Barbie Internet-connected toy. This Barbie has an internal microphone, a WiFi connection to Google’s voice recognition services, and a speak ...