Newsletter: Watch our Orwell and Russia Discussion
26 November 2010
Full video of our event on Orwell and Russia is now available on our website and YouTube channel. Masha Karp, journalist and translator of a 2001 edition of Animal Farm, and John Lloyd, contributing editor and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial… find out more
Newsletter: Orwell Lecture 2010 next week – Ferdinand Mount
19 November 2010
This year’s George Orwell Memorial Lecture takes place next Friday, 26th November. Ferdinand Mount – former Orwell Prize judge (2009), former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and novelist and autho… find out more
Newsletter: Orwell and Russia – event next week
12 November 2010
Orwell’s work was highly critical of Soviet Russia and its uncritical adherents, made clear in such works as his proposed preface to Animal Farm. After his death, Animal Farm and 1984 – both satires on Russia – were banned behind the Iron Curtain. … find out more
Orwell Prize 2011 OPEN – judges announced
21 October 2010
Jim Naughtie, Ursula Owen and Will Skidelsky to judge Book Prize Martin Bright and Michela Wrong judge journalism, ‘Jack of Kent’ and Gaby Hinsliff blogs Orwell Prize launches new website and new app The Orwell Prize 2011 opened for entries tonig… find out more
Orwell Prize 2010 winners announced
19 May 2010
Andrea Gillies wins Book Prize for Keeper, an account of living with Alzheimer’s Peter Hitchens wins Journalism Prize for his foreign reporting in the Mail on Sunday Pseudonymous social worker Winston Smith wins Blog Prize for ‘Working with the Un… find out more
Orwell Prize 2010 shortlists announced
15 April 2010
The shortlists for the Orwell Prize 2010, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, were announced at the annual shortlist debate at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf, this evening, Thursday 15th April at 7pm. Director of the Prize, Jean Seat… find out more
Orwell Prize 2010 Longlists Announced
24 March 2010
18-strong book longlist includes fiction debuts, Harare North and Elegy for Easterly Journalism and Blog Prize longlists expanded from 12 to 14 due to high quality of entries Blog Prize longlist includes pseudonymous policewoman PC Bloggs and social w… find out more
Gavin Freeguard: Orwell Lecture 2007
07 December 2007
Michael Rosen: Orwell Lecture 2007 - The Politics of Response (full text) A brief summary of the Orwell Lecture 2007, 'The Politics of Response', given by Michael Rosen. ‘Beyond the End of the Corridor’ Michael Rosen began by assuring us that, desp… find out more
Gavin Freeguard: Orwell, ID Cards, the Citizen and the State
03 December 2007
A brief summary of the Orwell Prize 2008 Launch Debate. 'Nosey Parker' Heather Brooke was surprised at the prevalence of CCTV cameras in the UK compared to the US. As a journalist, she said, she always tried to ‘turn the camera around’ on to herself… find out more
