The Orwell Prize Winners - 2017

'What I have most wanted to do...is to make political writing into an art' - George Orwell (Why I Write)   Announcing the winners of  THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017

 

We are delighted to announce the winners of The Orwell Prizes 2017. The winners were presented with their £3000 prize money by Richard Blair, Orwell's son at a Prize Ceremony held this evening at UCL.

 

 

 

The Winner of The Orwell Prize for Books 2017 is Citizen Clem by John Bew (Riverrun). Erica Wagner, one of the judges, commented that Bew's work is: "A book both magisterial and gripping...Revealing both the strength of an individual and the strengths of a society, this is necessary reading in 2017" Click here to read the full press release.

 

The Winner of The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2017 is Fintan O'Toole for writing in The Irish Times, The Guardian and The Observer. Dame Liz Forgan, one of the judges, said, "It's not often that penetrating intelligence, a keen historical understanding and sparkling prose coincide in one journalist. When he is also uniquely placed to write about one of the biggest issues of the day from an unusual but highly important perspective we are all in luck." Click here to read the full press release.

 

The Winner of The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils is Felicity Lawrence, for 'The Gangsters on England's Doorstep (journalistic writing and audio content) for The Guardian. The Judges said, "Lawrence’s reporting ... draws together a wide range of issues relating to organized crime and migrant labour which have significant, urgent resonance for our understanding of social evils in a post-Brexit Britain."        The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils is supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation