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• George Orwell - The Orwell Prize

  Win one of three pairs of tickets Click here to see the shortlists for the Orwell Prize 2016 Click here to see the full lists The Orwell Youth Prize Celebration Day took place on Friday 24th June 20...

• In Defence of English Cooking | The Orwell Prize

  This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books. We have heard a good deal of talk in recent years about the desirability of attractin...

• The Moon Under Water | The Orwell Prize

  My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on Saturday nights. I...

• About the Prize | The Orwell Prize

  The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. Every year, we award prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an ...

• A brief history | The Orwell Prize

  1974-1993 When George Orwell began, only in the very last years of his life, to make money for the first time, he was generous to hard-up friends, to needy writers, poor poets and to small good causes...

• Freedom and Happiness (Review of 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin) | The Orwell Prize

  This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books. Several years after hearing of its existence, I have at last got my hands on a copy o...