ORWELL PRIZE 2016 LONGLISTS ANNOUNCED

THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM AND THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR EXPOSING BRITAIN'S SOCIAL EVILS   2016 LONGLISTS ANNOUNCED Longlists for the Orwell Prize for Journalism and the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils, were announced today, Wednesday 2nd March 2016. The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. It is awarded each year to the book and journalism which come closest to George Orwell’s ambition to ‘make political writing into an art’. The Orwell Prize for Journalism is awarded to a journalist for sustained reportage and/or commentary which displays excellence in style and content Longlists