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THE PREVENTION OF LITERATURE The Prevention of Literature. This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books.. About a year ago I attended a meeting of the P.E.N. Club, the occasion being the tercentenary of Milton’s Areopagitica — a pamphlet, it may be remembered, in defence of freedom of the press. Milton’s famous phrase about the sin of ‘killingORWELL PRIZE
By Orwell Foundation in Orwell Youth Prize on 19 May 2021. The town sleeps. The streets snooze. The lampposts flicker out one by one, heralding the arrival of morning. In the distance, a cycle approaches. The metallic chime of its bell slices through the crisp cold air. Its wheels rotate rhythmically. The rider atop the cycle rounds a cornernow.
THE PROLETARIAN WRITER The Proletarian Writer. This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books.. Hawkins I have always doubted if there is such a thing as proletarian literature — or ever could be. The first question is what people mean by it. BOOKS VS. CIGARETTES It is nearly 9s 9d a week, and at present 9s 9d is the equivalent of about 83 cigarettes (Players): even before the war it would have bought you less than 200 cigarettes. With prices as they now are, I am spending far more on tobacco than I do on books. I smoke six ounces a week, at half-a-crown an ounce, making nearly £40 a year.A NICE CUP OF TEA
Anyone who has used that comforting phrase ‘a nice cup of tea’ invariably means Indian tea. Secondly, tea should be made in small quantities—that is, in a teapot. Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease andwhitewash.
ANTISEMITISM IN BRITAIN Two facts emerge from them. One – which is very important and which I must return to in a moment – is that above a certain intellectual level people are ashamed of being antisemitic and are careful to draw a distinction between ‘antisemitism’ and ‘disliking Jews’. The other is that antisemitism is CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: INTRODUCTION TO 'ANIMAL FARM' George Orwell: Animal Farm George Orwell: The Freedom of the Press (proposed preface to Animal Farm) Buy Animal Farm (Harvill Secker) Christopher Hitchens: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2011, Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens: Arguably (Atlantic Books) More by Christopher Hitchens on Orwell This extract was published by kind permission of Harvill Secker. HOPI SEN | THE ORWELL FOUNDATION Hopi Sen. My name is Hopi Sen. Really. Escaping a lucrative career in advertising (which ended when I saw a lifetime of Daz adverts stretching before me and resigned in panic) I started work for the Labour party as the Northern region press officer in 2000. After the 2001 election I moved to Party HQ, before becoming the head ofcampaigns at
THE ORWELL FOUNDATIONWINNERSHOW WE WORKOUR PROGRAMMEPAISLEY WORKSHOPSWIGAN SUNSHINE HOUSE The Orwell Foundation is the home of The Orwell Prizes and The Orwell Youth Prize. We use George Orwell's work to celebrate honest writing and reporting, uncover hidden lives and confront uncomfortable truths – and, in doing so, to promote Orwell's values ofTHE ORWELL PRIZE
The Orwell Prize is the UK's most prestigious prize for political writing. The prizes are awarded each year to the books and journalism which best meet Orwell's ambition to "make political writing into anart".
THE PREVENTION OF LITERATURE The Prevention of Literature. This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books.. About a year ago I attended a meeting of the P.E.N. Club, the occasion being the tercentenary of Milton’s Areopagitica — a pamphlet, it may be remembered, in defence of freedom of the press. Milton’s famous phrase about the sin of ‘killingORWELL PRIZE
By Orwell Foundation in Orwell Youth Prize on 19 May 2021. The town sleeps. The streets snooze. The lampposts flicker out one by one, heralding the arrival of morning. In the distance, a cycle approaches. The metallic chime of its bell slices through the crisp cold air. Its wheels rotate rhythmically. The rider atop the cycle rounds a cornernow.
THE PROLETARIAN WRITER The Proletarian Writer. This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books.. Hawkins I have always doubted if there is such a thing as proletarian literature — or ever could be. The first question is what people mean by it. BOOKS VS. CIGARETTES It is nearly 9s 9d a week, and at present 9s 9d is the equivalent of about 83 cigarettes (Players): even before the war it would have bought you less than 200 cigarettes. With prices as they now are, I am spending far more on tobacco than I do on books. I smoke six ounces a week, at half-a-crown an ounce, making nearly £40 a year.A NICE CUP OF TEA
Anyone who has used that comforting phrase ‘a nice cup of tea’ invariably means Indian tea. Secondly, tea should be made in small quantities—that is, in a teapot. Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease andwhitewash.
ANTISEMITISM IN BRITAIN Two facts emerge from them. One – which is very important and which I must return to in a moment – is that above a certain intellectual level people are ashamed of being antisemitic and are careful to draw a distinction between ‘antisemitism’ and ‘disliking Jews’. The other is that antisemitism is CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: INTRODUCTION TO 'ANIMAL FARM' George Orwell: Animal Farm George Orwell: The Freedom of the Press (proposed preface to Animal Farm) Buy Animal Farm (Harvill Secker) Christopher Hitchens: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2011, Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens: Arguably (Atlantic Books) More by Christopher Hitchens on Orwell This extract was published by kind permission of Harvill Secker. HOPI SEN | THE ORWELL FOUNDATION Hopi Sen. My name is Hopi Sen. Really. Escaping a lucrative career in advertising (which ended when I saw a lifetime of Daz adverts stretching before me and resigned in panic) I started work for the Labour party as the Northern region press officer in 2000. After the 2001 election I moved to Party HQ, before becoming the head ofcampaigns at
ESSAYS AND OTHER WORKS The Moon Under Water ( Evening Standard, 1946) The Prevention of Literature ( Polemic, 1946) The Proletarian Writer (BBC Home Service and The Listener, 1940) The Spike ( Adelphi, 1931) The Sporting Spirit ( Tribune, 1945) W. B. Yeats ( Horizon, 1943) Why I Write ( Gangrel, 1946) You and the Atom Bomb ( THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING The Orwell Prize for Political Writing. The Orwell Prize for Political Writing (formerly The Orwell Book Prize) is one of the UK’s most prestigious prizes for non-fiction, awarded to the book or pamphlet which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.. Last year’s winner was Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by POETRY | THE ORWELL FOUNDATION Poetry. According to biographer D. J. Taylor, the young Orwell displayed ‘an enthusiasm for poetry that in formative years seems to have been as least as strong as any desire to write fiction’. Orwell’s poetry is not among his best known – or mosthighly praised –
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Diaries. The Orwell Foundation has three blogs posting diary entries by George Orwell: the Webby-nominated Orwell Diaries 1938-42 blog which is ‘post-blogging’ Orwell’s domestic and political diaries, each entry published seventy years to the day since it was written; The Road to Wigan Pier blog, which carries the diary Orwell wrote while touring the Midlands and north of England between Q&A WITH JAMES REBANKS The Orwell Prizes for Political Writing and Political Fiction shortlists, released last month, highlight the finest politically engaged books published in 2020. Throughout June, we will be sharing Q+As with the shortlisted writers from both lists, here on Q&A WITH ABDULRAZAK GURNAH The Orwell Prizes for Political Writing and Political Fiction 2021 shortlists, released last month, highlight the finest politically engaged books published in 2020. Throughout June, we will be sharing Q+As with the shortlisted writers from both lists,ENTER THE PRIZE
The Orwell Youth Prize 2021 is now open and this year’s theme is “A New Direction: Starting Small” Please use this form to submit your application to the Orwell Youth Prize. DECLINE OF THE ENGLISH MURDER Decline of the English Murder. Robert McCrum: George Orwell was no fan of the News of the World (The Observer)D. J. Taylor: For 168 years News of the World was as English as roast beef (The Independent)This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books.. It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. ANTISEMITISM IN BRITAIN Two facts emerge from them. One – which is very important and which I must return to in a moment – is that above a certain intellectual level people are ashamed of being antisemitic and are careful to draw a distinction between ‘antisemitism’ and ‘disliking Jews’. The other is that antisemitism is * The Orwell Foundation* About
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div.slide" data-cycletwo-log="false" style="position: relative;"> 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_George Orwell
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_Politics and the English Language_ 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. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/testimonials/politics-and-the-english-language/0
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_Politics and the English Language_George Orwell
2016-04-04T10:15:07+01:00GEORGE ORWELL
_Politics and the English Language_ 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. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/testimonials/politics-and-the-english-language/ Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. -------------------------George Orwell
_Why I Write_
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_Why I Write_
Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/testimonials/8270/ To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. -------------------------GEORGE ORWELL
Proposed Preface to _Animal Farm_George Orwell
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Proposed Preface to _Animal Farm_ To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/testimonials/8267/ Intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face… If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear -------------------------GEORGE ORWELL
Proposed Preface to Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
2016-04-04T10:15:57+01:00GEORGE ORWELL
Proposed Preface to Animal Farm Intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face… If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear https://www.orwellfoundation.com/testimonials/proposed-preface-to-animal-farm-2/ Freedom of the intellect means the freedom to report what one has seen, heard, and felt, and not to be obliged to fabricate imaginaryfacts and feelings.
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_The Prevention of Literature_George Orwell
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_The Prevention of Literature_ Freedom of the intellect means the freedom to report what one has seen, heard, and felt, and not to be obliged to fabricate imaginaryfacts and feelings.
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