Newsletter: Merry Christmas!
17 December 2010
We’d like to wish you a very merry Christmas, and best wishes for a prosperous 2011. Many thanks for supporting us this year! But before this newsletter takes a break over the festive season, we have a few Christmas gifts for you from the pen of George… find out more
Newsletter: Orwell’s Christmas Pudding
10 December 2010
With Christmas only a couple of weeks away, your thoughts may be turning to preparations for the big day. And if you’re still in need of a Christmas pudding, Orwell may be able to help. In 1946, Orwell was commissioned to write a piece on British Cooke… find out more
Taiwan Orwell conference calls for papers
08 December 2010
A call for papers from 'George Orwell: Asian and Global Perspectives', a conference to be held at Tunghai University, Taiwan on 21st May 2011. If you'd like any furhter information, please contact Dr Henk Vynckier, chair of the conference. George Orwell: … find out more
Newsletter: Orwell and the Oligarchs – watch the Orwell Lecture
03 December 2010
We’ve now uploaded the full video of this year’s Orwell Lecture, ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’, given by Ferdinand Mount. Ferdy – a former Orwell Prize judge (2009), former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, former editor of the Times Literar… find out more
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