Tuesday 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 Cheltenham Literature Festival
- Saturday 15th October, 10am: ’Victorian Values’ with Shiv Malik and Owen Jones
- Sunday 16th October, 6pm: ‘The Political Network’ with Graeme Archer and Oliver Kamm
From the archive
One of Orwell’s recent hop-picking diary entries was reworked for an article on the tradition for the New Statesman and Nation, which you can read on our website. The sidebar on the blog also has plenty of other links, including videos of Kent hop-pickers and more background on hop-picking, as well as a Google Map of Orwell’s progress and more about Down and Out in Paris and London and A Clergyman’s Daughter. Ahead of Dickens’ bicentenary next year, Guardian Books have been running a number of features on the great novelist, a major influence on Orwell. There’s lots about Dickens on our website too: you can read Orwell’s famous essay on Dickens, or watch either of our Orwell vs Dickens debates, as Jenny Hartley and Philip Hensher take on Hardeep Singh Kohli and Jean Seaton (Oxford 2009) and Lucinda Hawksley and Michael Slater battle Davids Aaronovitch and Taylor (Buxton 2010). In fact, D. J. Taylor is part of the Guardian celebrations, writing about his favourite Dickens, Sketches by Boz.
From elsewhere
- The BBC Archive has Orwell’s resignation letter from 24th September 1943
- Author Robert Harris tells The Guardian: ‘Orwell has always been a huge influence on me’
- Peter Hitchens, winner of the Journalism Prize 2010, writes about Orwell and his experiences at the Orwell Festival in Letchworth…
- …while you can see some pictures from the Festival on flickr
- Aya Theatre are looking for funding for their off-Broadway production of Burmese Days…
- …and you can hear Ryan Kiggell, artistic director, talk about Burmese Days in this old podcast with our director Jean Seaton and UCL archivist Gill Furlong
- Catherine Bennett, shortlisted for the Journalism Prize 2009, has a new book out, Mrs Cameron’s Diary
The Wartime Diaries
The next entry will be published on 14th March.
The Hop-Picking Diaries
Over the last week, entries were published on 18th and 19th September. The next entry will be published on 8th October.
The Wigan Pier Diaries
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