Orwell Prize2009

Given by The Orwell Foundation

Other Names: Prix George-Orwell
18 Works 4,619 Books 137 Reviews ½ 4.0
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism show more and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

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Winner 1

WorkYear
Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared by Andrew Brown2009

Shortlist 5

WorkYear
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt2009
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival by Owen Matthews2009
Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour by Hsiao-Hung Pai2009
Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid2009
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson2009

Longlist 12

WorkYear
Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq by Patrick Cockburn2009
Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies2009
Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks For the Promised Land by Eva Figes2009
The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted by Matthew Green2009
Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys2009
A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel by Hatim Kanaaneh2009
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland2009
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower2009
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond by David Runciman2009
Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values by Philippe Sands2009
The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny by Jeremy Seabrook2009
Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II by A. N. Wilson2009

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The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

Shortlist.
Longlist. (English, Member-written)
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

Winners.
Longlist.
(English, Member-written)
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

Winners.
Shortlist.
(English, Member-written)

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