The Longlist
for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 was announced today, Monday 7th
March 2016.
The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political
writing. It is awarded each year for the book which come closest to
George Orwell’s ambition to ‘make political writing into an art’.
- This year’s
wide-ranging longlist features five women and seven men
- Books from four
independent publishing houses longlisted
- Emma Sky longlisted for
her first book
- Longlist features
Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, 2012 PEN Pinter International Writer
of Courage
The judges for
the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 are Lord William Waldegrave, Professor Andrew Gamble, David Goodhart and Fiammetta Rocco. Lord Waldegrave joins
the judges at the shortlisting stage.
The shortlists for the Orwell Prize for Books, the Orwell Prize for
Journalism and the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils
will be announced at an event on the evening of Thursday 21st
April 2016.
The winner of each £3000 prize will be announced at a ceremony at the
end of May 2016.
The Orwell Prize was established by the late Sir Bernard Crick in its
present form in 1993, awarding its first Prizes in 1994. Past winners
of the Orwell Prize for Books include James Meek (2015), Alan Johnson
(2014), Andrea Gillies (2010) Raja Shehadeh (2008) and Peter Hennessy
(2007).
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The Orwell
Prize for Books 2016: Longlist
- Andy Beckett, Promised you a
Miracle: UK80 – 82 (Allen Lane)
- Jason Burke, The New Threat
from Islamic Militancy (Bodley Head)
- Thomas Harding, The House by the
Lake (William Heinemann)
- Sudhir
Hazareesingh, How
the French Think (Allen Lane)
- Steve Hilton, More Human (WH
Allen)
- John Kay, Other
People’s
Money (Profile Books)
- Ferdinand Mount, The Tears of the
Rajas (Simon and Schuster)
- Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of
Russia (Atlantic Books)
- Emma Sky, The Unravelling
(Atlantic Books)
- Anne-Marie
Slaughter, Unfinished
Business (Oneworld Publications)
- Wendell Steavenson,
Circling
the Square (Granta Books)
- Gillian Tett, The Silo Effect
(Little, Brown)
- Samar Yazbek, The Crossing
(Rider)
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