Orwell Prize

Il Premio Orwell (Orwell Prize) è un premio letterario assegnato alle migliori opere trattanti temi politici.

Istituito nel 1994 dal giornale The Political Quarterly, dalla Orwell Trust e dal filosofo politico Bernard Crick, è suddiviso in 4 categorie e assegna ad ogni vincitore un premio di 3000 sterline.

La cerimonia di premiazione si svolge ogni 25 giugno, data di nascita dello scrittore George Orwell al quale il premio è dedicato.

Albo d'oro

Categoria libri misti (1994-2018)

1994: Anatol Lieven, The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
1995: Fionnuala O’Connor, In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland
1996: Fergal Keane, Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
1997: Peter Godwin, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
1998: Patricia Hollis, Jennie Lee: A Life
1999: D. M. Thomas, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life
2000: Brian Cathcart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence
2001: Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War
2002: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives
2003: Francis Wheen, Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991-2000
2004: Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
2005: Michael Collins, The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class
2006: Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Moses, Citizen and Me
2007: Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good: Britain in the 1950s
2008: Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
2009: Andrew Brown, Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared
2010: Andrea Gillies, Keeper
2011: Thomas Henry Bingham, The Rule of Law
2012: Toby Harnden, Dead Men Risen
2013: A. T. Williams, A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa
2014: Alan Johnson, This Boy
2015: James Meek, Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
2016: Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia
2017: John Bew, Citizen Clem
2018: Darren McGarvey, Poverty Safari

Fiction politica

2019: Anna Burns, Milkman
2020: Colson Whitehead, I ragazzi della Nickel (The Nickel Boys)
2021: Ali Smith, Summer
2022: Claire Keegan, Piccole cose da nulla (Small Things Like These)
2023: Tom Crewe, Una nuova vita (The New Life)
2024: Hisham Matar, Amici di una vita (My Friends)

Saggistica politica

2019: Patrick Radden Keefe, Non dire niente: un caso di omicidio e tradimento nell'Irlanda del Nord (Say Nothing)
2020: Kate Clanchy, Some Kids I Taught and What they Taught Me
2021: Joshua Yaffa, Between Two Fires
2022: Sally Hayden, E la quarta volta siamo annegati (My Fourth Time, We Drowned)
2023: Peter Apps, Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
2024: Matthew Longo, The Picnic