# Orwell Prize

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)

### 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

### 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

### 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

### 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