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Orwell Prize 2026 winners announced at ceremony at University College London
Last night, Thursday 25th June, we revealed the winners of the 2026 Orwell Prizes at a Ceremony at the Bloomsbury Theatre, hosted by Lord Kim Darroch, Chair of Trustees of The Orwell Foundation, on an evening which also saw Ukrainian writer...
The Orwell Prize 2026 finalists on the political books which most influenced them
The winners of the 2026 Orwell Prizes will be announced tomorrow evening, Thursday 25 June, at University College London. Ahead of the announcements, we asked the finalists for the The Orwell Prize for Political Writing and The Orwell Prize...
The Orwell Prize 2026 finalists on why they write
In his essay ‘Why I Write’, George Orwell claimed that prose writers have four ‘great motivations’ (putting aside the need to earn a living) — sheer egoism; aesthetic enthusiasm; historical impulse; and political purpose. We put that same q...
The Orwell Prize 2026 finalists on their shortlisted books - and why they matter
Together, The Orwell Prize for Political Writing and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction reward the fiction and non-fiction that best meets George Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art.' This year’s winners will be...
Orwell's England? Englishness, Britishness and the Populist Challenge
Dear Friends,
In the autumn of 1940, as the Blitz raged overhead, George Orwell sat down to write The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), a searching reflection on the nature of England, its people, and its political future.
Inspired by Orwell—a...
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