George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on ...

Donal Ryan has said he is “overjoyed” to have won the prestigious Orwell Prize for political fiction.The Tipperary native was ...

Ukrainian novelist and war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina has posthumously won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing ...

Another was Orwell’s Nose (2016), described by its literature professor author John Sutherland as a “pathological biography”. It analysed the role of smells in Orwell’s writing and his private life, ...

Irish writer Donal Ryan has been announced in London as the winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for ...