Orwell Prize2012

Uitgereikt door The Orwell Foundation

Andere Namen: Prix George-Orwell
18 Werken 5,873 boeken 185 Besprekingen ½ 4.0
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism toon meer and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. 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". (Wikipedia).

Shortlist.
Longlist. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (36), Shortlist (105), Longlist (160)
Categorieën:
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (7), 2022 (19), 2021 (25), 2020 (28), 2019 (27), 2018 (12), 2017 (14), 2016 (13), 2015 (14), 2014 (14), 2013 (13), 2012 (18), 2011 (10), 2010 (17), 2009 (18), 2008 (14), 2007 (5), 2006 (6), 2005 (6), 2004 (5), 2003 (6), 2002 (2), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1)

Winner 1

WerkJaar
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan door Toby Harnden2012

Shortlist 5

WerkJaar
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India door Siddhartha Deb2012
Dark market cybercriminelen, cyberpolitie en onze veiligheid in een digitale wereld door Misha Glenny2012
Hood Rat door Gavin Knight2012
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China door Julia Lovell2012
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up door Richard Lloyd Parry2012

Longlist 12

WerkJaar
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 door Rodric Braithwaite2012
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign door Sherard Cowper-Coles2012
The Conservatives: A History door Robin Harris2012
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens door Christopher Hitchens2012
Pakistan: A Hard Country door Anatol Lieven2012
De trein naar het oosten door Caroline Moorehead2012
Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry door Douglas Murray2012
Just Boris: the Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity door Sonia Purnell2012
The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity door Jeffrey D. Sachs2012
To Die for: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World? door Lucy Siegle2012
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America door Christopher Turner2012
Unfair Trade: The Truth Behind Big Business, Politics and Fair Trade door Conor Woodman2012

Beschrijvingen

The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. 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". (Wikipedia).

Shortlist.
Longlist. (English, Door lid geschreven)
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. 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". (Wikipedia).

Winners.
Longlist.
(English, Door lid geschreven)
The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.

Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for non-fiction and fiction (fiction first awarded in 2019), one for journalism and one for 'Exposing Britain's Social Evils' (established 2015); a fifth prize was awarded for blogging between 2009 and 2012. 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". (Wikipedia).

Winners.
Shortlist.
(English, Door lid geschreven)

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