Il Premio Orwell (Orwell Prize) è un premio letterario assegnato alle migliori opere trattanti temi politici.
Istituito nel 1994 dal giornale The Political Quarterly, dalla Orwell Trust e dal filosofo politico Bernard Crick, è suddiviso in 4 categorie e assegna ad ogni vincitore un premio di 3000 sterline.
La cerimonia di premiazione si svolge ogni 25 giugno, data di nascita dello scrittore George Orwell al quale il premio è dedicato.
Albo d'oro Categoria libri misti (1994-2018) 1994: Anatol Lieven, The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence 1995: Fionnuala O’Connor, In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland 1996: Fergal Keane, Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey 1997: Peter Godwin, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa 1998: Patricia Hollis, Jennie Lee: A Life 1999: D. M. Thomas, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life 2000: Brian Cathcart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence 2001: Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War 2002: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives 2003: Francis Wheen, Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991-2000 2004: Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century 2005: Michael Collins, The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class 2006: Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Moses, Citizen and Me 2007: Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good: Britain in the 1950s 2008: Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape 2009: Andrew Brown, Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared 2010: Andrea Gillies, Keeper 2011: Thomas Henry Bingham, The Rule of Law 2012: Toby Harnden, Dead Men Risen 2013: A. T. Williams, A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa 2014: Alan Johnson, This Boy 2015: James Meek, Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else 2016: Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia 2017: John Bew, Citizen Clem 2018: Darren McGarvey, Poverty Safari
Fiction politica 2019: Anna Burns, Milkman 2020: Colson Whitehead, I ragazzi della Nickel (The Nickel Boys) 2021: Ali Smith, Summer 2022: Claire Keegan, Piccole cose da nulla (Small Things Like These) 2023: Tom Crewe, Una nuova vita (The New Life) 2024: Hisham Matar, Amici di una vita (My Friends) 2025: Donal Ryan, Heart, Be at Peace
Saggistica politica 2019: Patrick Radden Keefe, Non dire niente: un caso di omicidio e tradimento nell'Irlanda del Nord (Say Nothing) 2020: Kate Clanchy, Some Kids I Taught and What they Taught Me 2021: Joshua Yaffa, Between Two Fires 2022: Sally Hayden, E la quarta volta siamo annegati (My Fourth Time, We Drowned) 2023: Peter Apps, Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen 2024: Matthew Longo, The Picnic 2025: Viktorija Amelina, Guardando le donne guardare la guerra (War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War)
Giornalismo 1994: Neal Ascherson 1995: Paul Foot e Tim Laxton 1996: Melanie Phillips 1997: Ian Bell 1998: Polly Toynbee 1999: Robert Fisk 2000: David McKittrick 2001: David Aaronovitch 2002: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 2003: Brian Sewell 2004: Vanora Bennett 2005: Matthew Parris 2006: Timothy Garton Ash 2007: Peter Beaumont 2008: Johann Hari (revocato nel 2011) 2009: Patrick Cockburn 2010: Peter Hitchens 2011: Jenni Russell 2012: Amelia Gentleman 2013: Andrew Norfolk e Tom Bergin 2014: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 2015: Martin Chulov 2016: Iona Craig e Gideon Rachman 2017: Fintan O’Toole 2018: Carole Cadwalladr 2019: Steve Bloomfield e Suzanne Moore 2020: Janice Turner 2021: John Harris e John Domokos 2022: George Monbiot 2023: Gary Younge 2024: Wendell Steavenson 2025: Jenny Kleeman
Blog (2009-2012) 2009: Richard Horton: NightJack– An English Detective 2010: Winston Smith: Working with the Underclass 2011: Graeme Archer: ConservativeHome 2012: Rangers Tax-Case
Exposing Britain’s Social Evils 2015: Alison Holt 2016: Nicci Gerrard 2017: Felicity Lawrence 2018: Financial Times 2019: Max Daly, Behind County Lines 2020: Ian Birrell 2021: Annabel Deas, Hope High 2022: Ed Thomas, The Cost of Covid – Burnley Crisis 2023: Shanti Das e Mark Townsend
Reporting Homelessness 2023: Daniel Lavelle e Freya Marshall Payne 2024: Karl Brown, Debbie Cuthbert, Stuart Potts e David Winter 2025: Simon Murphy
Premi speciali 1997: David Lipsey 2004: Hugo Young 2007: Newsnight 2008: Clive James 2009: Tony Judt 2010: Norma Percy 2012: Christopher Hitchens 2013: Marie Colvin, On the Front Line 2014: Jonathan Freedland
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