Orwell Prize (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Orwell Prize is regarded as the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. Three prizes are awarded each year: one for a book, one for journalism and another for blogging. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to 'make political writing into an art'. The prize was founded by Bernard Crick in 1993 using money from the royalties of the hardback edition of his biography of Orwell. Its sponsors are Orwell's adopted son Richard Blair, Reuters, The Political Quarterly, Blackwell Publishing, Media Standards Trust, and A. M. Heath & Company. Crick remained Chair of the judges until 2006. The media historian Professor Jean Seaton has filled this position since 2007.