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The Orwell Prizes
@TheOrwellPrize
Awarded by The Orwell Foundation | Our prizes and programmes include @orwellyouthpriz, The Orwell Festival and @orwellquotes
Sep 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Publishers! Authors! The Orwell Prizes for Political Writing & Political Fiction (2021) are looking for the books first published in 2020 that best meet Orwell's ambition 'to make political writing into an art'. Enter via the online form before 30 October: bit.ly/2FzO6LI Panels will be announced shortly and entry to our journalism awards will also open later this autumn. This year's book prizes were won by Kate Clanchy (@KateClanchy1) for 'Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me' & Colson Whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) for 'The Nickel Boys' 🏆🏆
Jun 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published #onthisday in 1949. In 2017 @TheOrwellPrize read the novel live, dramatised by @HannahPrice, with 50 guest readers including @DavidOlusoga, @ETemelkuran, @simon_schama, @Bonn1eGreer and many more. It took 11 hours: bit.ly/37bOPwh Full cast, readers and credits: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou…

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May 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils, supported by @jrf_uk, rewards the very best of social reporting. Congratulations to our 2020 shortlistees & a special thanks to judges @IainDale @Farrah_Storr @Narcomania @ProfRosieCamp @AbigailSPaul "Britain’s Hidden Children’s homes is a vital & shocking investigation into the sector of unregulated care homes. With unremitting thoroughness & quality, the @BBCNewsnight team alerted the public to a system harming some of the most vulnerable..."

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May 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
The judges prioritised originality, new angles and journalism that has impacted policy and public attitudes for this year’s #OrwellPrize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils longlist – a big thanks to @IainDale @AbigailSPaul @Farrah_Storr @Narcomania @ProfRosieCamp @jrf_uk We’ll be sharing the longlisted entries over the next week
Jan 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The British writer George Orwell died 70 years ago #onthisday, aged 46. As well as believing in the moral power of language, Orwell understood the dangers of its corruption. Seventy years after his death, Orwell has never been more relevant to the world we inhabit. #orwellday From the corruption of the media to pervasive new technologies, from poverty and inequality to the rise of political extremism, George Orwell's concerns are as germane to our time as they were to the circumstances in which his novels, non-fiction and journalism were conceived.