Congratulations to Hannah Barnes for her The Orwell Prizes shortlisting for #TimetoThink

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Read the book: bit.ly/TimetoThinkBook

Orwell Prize winner Sally Hayden ('My Fourth Time, We Drowned' - The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022) has raised concerns about press freedom after being denied entry to Rwanda.

Where next for public service broadcasting? 🎙️

This special edition of Political Quarterly is currently free to read - ft. contributions from Orwell Foundation Director Professor Jean Seaton, prev. judges Professor Suzanne Franks, Isabel Hilton and Richard Sambrook and more.

'When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.'

- George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language'

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This was either a well-informed hotel manager, or pure kismet, but when George Orwell's son, Patron of Orwell Society, checked in to a hotel today ( #WorldBookDay no less) guess which room he was given...

Thanks to The Orwell Prize
#Room101 #NineteenEightyFour

Without education where would I be? Where would
any of us be? António Guterres 2022
Anyone? Università di Bologna The Orwell Prize @UWICaveHill Sorbonne Université WKKF Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn IISc Bangalore USP - Universidade de São Paulo Hewlett Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Global Goals Sarah Al Amiri

It’s my stop on the #blogtour for #thestoryoftheforest , the enthralling new novel by by Linda Grant, out now from Virago Press. My #bookreview of this The Orwell Prizes nominated saga of family & storytelling is on the blog today!

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#TimetoThink , the The Orwell Prize shortlisted book by Hannah Barnes, has been included in The Times and The Sunday Times Best Books of 2023 roundup.

'Sober, rhetoric-free and meticulously researched' Janice Turner

Read the review: bit.ly/3qONcmn
Buy the book: bit.ly/TimetoThinkBook

My new piece up on Merion West - a (somewhat belated) review of Masha Karp's excellent book on Orwell and Russia.

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Marian Keyes (Marian Keyes) chooses Down in Out as her 'book which changed me as a teenager'... '[Orwell's] memoir of living with the destitute activated my social conscience at the age of 15.'

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So I didn't make the shortlist for The Orwell Prizes for reporting on #homelessness , not gonna lie, I'm pretty gutted, so if any mags / papers are hiring and would like someone who writes like a fiend and will give it her all, give me a shout... #journojobs Big Issue

Got these two The Orwell Prizes finalists to @TbilisiZeg. Quentin Sommerville just get into the picture already …

Nice work! The Orwell Foundation and the Orwell Archive are just across the road from UCL Hospital (Cruciform Building), not far from The Ministry of Truth...

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nice poet

Join me in a discussion of #Orwell 's #AnimalFarm Toronto Public Library here! CBU Research CBU The Orwell Prize crowdcast.io/c/a3syxf76l7z0

'Are there really such things as nations? Are we not forty-six million individuals, all different? And the diversity of it, the chaos!'

- England Your England

The Orwell Prize
This 1950s production of 1984 was way ahead of its time.
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Good luck to Peter Apps tonight for his impressive book Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen. The book is a finalist for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing. The winner will be announced tonight in London. The Orwell Prizes Oneworld Publications

Just announced, the winners of The Orwell Prize 2023, Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps and The New Life by Tom Crewe! Find them here along with the rest of this year's fantastic shortlist: bit.ly/42SUdjo