Orwell on Tramping
30 September 2011
With the final entry of Orwell’s Hop-Picking diary being published shortly, we’ve just added some more of Orwell’s writing on tramping to our website. ‘A Day in the Life of a Tramp’ was written by Orwell in 1929. Signed ‘Eric Blair’, it wa… find out more
The Orwell Prize and Johann Hari
29 September 2011
UPDATED Johann Hari has contacted the Prize and offered to repay the Prize money. Political Quarterly, one of the partners in running the Prize and the partner responsible for paying the prize money that year, has decided not to pursue the prize money, bu… find out more
Report on Johann Hari
27 September 2011
The Orwell Prize has made what it hopes to be a final statement on Johann Hari and the Journalism Prize 2008. The statement sets out, briefly, the sequence of events over the summer and clarifies the Prize’s position. Orwell Prize at The Times Cheltenh… find out more
Johann Hari returns Orwell Prize
16 September 2011
Johann Hari, who was awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2008, has returned the Prize. This followed allegations about Hari’s journalism, and the completion of an investigation by The Independent. The Orwell Prize accepted Hari’s withdrawal in a… find out more
Press Statement: The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2008
14 September 2011
The 2008 Orwell Prize for Journalism, which had been awarded to Johann Hari, was returned this afternoon by courier. The Orwell Prize accepts Hari’s withdrawal. ENDS … find out more
Orwell in Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
02 September 2011
The British author P. G. Wodehouse, best known for his Jeeves and Wooster stories, was in the news recently with the release of his MI5 files. A contemporary of Orwell’s, Wodehouse was interned by the Nazis in 1941 and controversially broadcast from Naz… find out more
Orwell’s Hop-Picking Diary Blog
26 August 2011
We’re publishing George Orwell’s hop-picking diary, from August to October 1931, as a blog at http://hoppicking.wordpress.com. Each diary entry will be published as a blogpost, 80 years to the day after it was originally written. The blog joins our ot… find out more
Orwell Prize to Blog Orwell’s Hop-Picking Diary
24 August 2011
Each entry to be posted 80 years to the day after it was written Prize’s final diary project, after success of 1938-42 diaries and The Road to Wigan Pier diary The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, launches its … find out more
At the Cheltenham Literature Festival
19 August 2011
The Orwell Prize is delighted to be organising some events at the wonderful Cheltenham Literature Festival for the first time this October. We’ll be holding at least two events. The first (on Saturday, 15th October at 10am), ‘Victorian Values’, has… find out more
Orwell on Hop-picking
12 August 2011
Hop-picking was long a late-summer tradition, with London workers heading to more rural counties like Kent to pick hops (a key ingredient of beer). In 1931, Orwell made the trip to Kent. His experiences appeared in his novel, A Clergyman’s Daughter, bu… find out more