The Irrawaddy Literary Festival

The Orwell Prize will be at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, Burma’s first international literary festival, with three panel discussions.

Friday 1st February

    3.30pm Writing Under Censorship and the Future of Free Speech

  • Timothy Garton Ash (journalist, author, historian, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and winner of the 2006 Orwell Prize for Journalism)
  • Pe Myint (Burmese politician, writer, journalist and editor of Myanmar Weekly)
  • U Ba Myint (writer and critic)

Saturday 2nd February

    4.30pm The Orwell Lecture

  • Timothy Garton Ash (journalist, author, historian, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and winner of the 2006 Orwell Prize for Journalism)
  • Pe Myint (Burmese politician, writer, journalist and founder of The Botataung)
  • Jean Seaton (Director of The Orwell Prize, Professor of Journalism at the University of Westminster, official historian of the BBC)

Sunday 3rd February

    12.30pm Witness of Violence

  • Timothy Garton Ash (journalist, author, historian, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and winner of the 2006 Orwell Prize for Journalism)
  • Fergal Keane (Burmese politician, writer, journalist and founder of The Botataung)
  • Rory Stewart (MP and author)
  • Ma Thida (Burmese writer and critic)