Orwell PrizeShortlist

Given by The Orwell Foundation

Andre Navne: Prix George-Orwell
105 Works 14,509 Books 506 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism vis mere and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

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Stages:
Alle, Winner (36), Shortlist (105), Longlist (160)
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Years:
Alle, 2023 (5), 2022 (17), 2021 (11), 2020 (6), 2019 (9), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (6), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (6)

Shortlist 105

VærkKategoriÅr
Birnam Wood af Eleanor CattonPolitical Fiction2023
The Story of the Forest af Linda GrantPolitical Fiction2023
After Sappho: A Novel af Selby Wynn SchwartzPolitical Fiction2023
Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival af Luke HardingPolitical Writing2023
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality af Angela SainiPolitical Writing2023
Cwen af Alice AlbiniaPolitical Fiction2022
A Passage North af Anuk ArudpragasamPolitical Fiction2022
Assembly af Natasha BrownPolitical Fiction2022
there are more things af Yara Rodrigues FowlerPolitical Fiction2022
The High House af Jessie GreengrassPolitical Fiction2022
The Colony af Audrey MageePolitical Fiction2022
Appliance af Jo MorganPolitical Fiction2022
Sterling Karat Gold af Isabel WaidnerPolitical Fiction2022
Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them af Polly CurtisPolitical Writing2022
Spike: The Virus v The People - the inside story af Jeremy FarrarPolitical Writing2022
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity af David GraeberPolitical Writing2022
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire af Kojo KoramPolitical Writing2022
Things I Have Withheld af Kei MillerPolitical Writing2022
Orwell's Roses af Rebecca SolnitPolitical Writing2022
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century af Amia SrinivasanPolitical Writing2022
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy af Adam ToozePolitical Writing2022
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad af Michela WrongPolitical Writing2022
Leave the World Behind af Rumaan AlamPolitical Fiction2021
The Vanishing Half af Brit BennettPolitical Fiction2021
The Death of Vivek Oji af Akwaeke EmeziPolitical Fiction2021
Afterlives: A Novel af Abdulrazak GurnahPolitical Fiction2021
Apeirogon af Colum McCannPolitical Fiction2021
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care af Madeleine BuntingPolitical Writing2021
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town af Barbara DemickPolitical Writing2021
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women af Christina LambPolitical Writing2021
African Europeans: An Untold History af Olivette OtelePolitical Writing2021
English Pastoral: An Inheritance af James RebanksPolitical Writing2021
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery af Michael TaylorPolitical Writing2021
Ducks, Newburyport af Lucy EllmannFiction2020
Girl, Woman, Other af Bernardine EvaristoFiction2020
The Wall af John LanchesterFiction2020
Heaven, My Home af Attica LockeFiction2020
Girl af Edna O'BrienFiction2020
The Nickel Boys af Colson WhiteheadFiction2020
Ironopolis af Glen James BrownPolitical Fiction2019
Sabrina af Nick DrnasoPolitical Fiction2019
Ordinary People af Diana EvansPolitical Fiction2019
House of Stone af Novuyo Rosa TshumaPolitical Fiction2019
Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back af Oliver BulloughPolitical Writing2019
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border af Francisco CantúPolitical Writing2019
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home af Nora KrugPolitical Writing2019
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations af David PillingPolitical Writing2019
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas af Alpa ShahPolitical Writing2019
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times af Christopher De BellaiguePolitical Fiction2018
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society af Cordelia FinePolitical Fiction2018
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home af Mark Mazower2018
Winter af Ali Smith2018
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain af Clair Wills2018
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic af Ruth Dudley Edwards2017
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class af Tim Shipman2017
Island Story af J. D. Taylor2017
And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain af Adrian Tempany2017
Another Day in the Death of America af Gary Younge2017
The New Threat: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy af Jason Burke2016
Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance af John Kay2016
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 af Ferdinand Mount2016
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq af Emma Sky2016
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution af Wendell Steavenson2016
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi af Rana Dasgupta2015
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile af Dan Davies2015
Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch af Nick Davies2015
Modernity Britain: 1957-1962 af David Kynaston2015
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited af Louisa Lim2015
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture af Gaiutra Bahadur2014
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957 af Frank Dikötter2014
The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia af James Fergusson2014
The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration af David Goodhart2014
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands af Charles Moore2014
Burying the Typewriter af Carmen Bugan2013
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin af Marie Colvin2013
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt af Richard Holloway2013
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia af Pankaj Mishra2013
Occupation Diaries af Raja Shehadeh2013
Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America af Clive Stafford Smith2013
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India af Siddhartha Deb2012
Darkmarket : cybertyve, cyberpoliti og dig af Misha Glenny2012
Hood Rat af Gavin Knight2012
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China af Julia Lovell2012
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up af Richard Lloyd Parry2012
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus af Oliver Bullough2011
The Betrayal af Helen Dunmore2011
Hitch-22 af Christopher Hitchens2011
Death to the Dictator!: A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price af Afsaneh Moqadam2011
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan af D. R. Thorpe2011
Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town af Christopher de Bellaigue2010
An Elegy for Easterly af Petina Gappah2010
Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security af John Kampfner2010
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath af Kenan Malik2010
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower af Michela Wrong2010
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century af Tony Judt2009
Stalins børn : tre generationer i krig og kærlighed af Owen Matthews2009
Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour af Hsiao-Hung Pai2009
Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia af Ahmed Rashid2009
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 af Mark Thompson2009
What's Left? af Nick Cohen2008
Wild: An Elemental Journey af Jay Griffiths2008
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner af William Hague2008
The Islamist af Ed Husain2008
Two Caravans af Marina Lewycka2008
Bad Men af Clive Stafford Smith2008

Beskrivelser

The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

Shortlist.
Longlist. (English, Member-written)
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

Winners.
Longlist.
(English, Member-written)
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". (Wikipedia).

Winners.
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(English, Member-written)

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