The Orwell Prizes 2025
Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes to the writing and reporting which best meets the spirit of George Orwell's own ambition 'to make political writing into an art'.
The winners of the 2025 Orwell Prizes will be revealed on the 25 June 2025.
On this page you can find more about this year's finalists, our judges, and all our previous winners.
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The Orwell Prize 2025 winners
Political Writing
Book prize
To be announced
Political fiction
book prize
To be announced
Journalism
prize
To be announced
Reporting homelessness
Prize
The Orwell Youth Prize
Inspired by its own ‘Big Brother’, Britain’s most prestigious Prize for political writing, the Orwell Youth Prize aims to support and inspire a new generation of politically engaged young writers.
