The Orwell Prize 2017 Shortlists

The Orwell Prize is delighted to announce the Shortlists for the Orwell Prizes 2017 You can read about all the shortlisted entries on our website.   The Shortlist for The Orwell Prize for Books 2017 is: (click here to read the full press release) Citizen Clem by John Bew (Quercus) The Seven by Ruth Dudley Edwards (Oneworld) All Out War by Tim Shipman (HarperCollins UK) Island Story by J. D. Taylor (Repeater) And the Sun Shines Now by Adrian Tempany (Faber & Faber) Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge (Guardian Faber) The Shortlist for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2017 is: (click here to read the full press release) Rosie Blau (The Economist) Carole Cadwalladr (The Observer) Aditya Chakrabortty (The Guardian) Nick Cohen (Standpoint, The Observer) John Harris (The Guardian) Fintan O’Toole (The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Observer) Paul Wood (The Spectator, Harper’s) The Shortlist for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils 2017 is: (click here to read the full press release)  Behind Closed Doors by Anna Hall, Erica Gornall & Louise Tickle (True Vision Aire and The Guardian) Drug company profiteering exposed by Billy Kenber (The Times) From Brighton to the Battlefield; how four friends were drawn to Syria by Mark Townsend (The Guardian) The gangsters on England’s doorstep by Felicity Lawrence (The Guardian) The RBS Dash for Cash by BuzzFeed UK Investigations team; Tom Warren, Jane Bradley & Richard Holmes (Heidi Blake – Editor) Real Britain column by Ros Wynne-Jones (The Daily Mirror) The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils is supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation    Congratulations to all those who have been shortlisted this year. The winners will be announced at the Prize Ceremony on Thursday 15th June