The Orwell Prizes

‘What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art’

The Orwell Prizes 2023

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'. In 2023, we awarded The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness for the first time.

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The Orwell Prize 2023 winners

 

Political Writing   
    Book prize

Show Me The Bodies

Peter Apps

Political fiction   
   book prize

The New Life

Tom Crewe

 
 

Journalism   
   prize

Gary Younge

The Guardian, The New Statesman, We Are Unedited

Exposing Britain's   
   Social Evils

 

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.

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