The Orwell Society offering £3,000 Journalism Bursary for 2020-21 The Orwell Society is a charity which aims to promote understanding of the life and works of George Orwell. Orwell's novels, essays and journalism continue to offer inspiration and insights to many people. This is clear from the increasing attention paid to his work throughout the…Read more Student Bursary 2020
George Orwell Studies
Journal packed with Orwellian insights Orwell is the most important writer since Shakespeare and the most influential writer who has ever lived. So argued John Rodden in his keynote speech to the UCL conference on Orwell earlier this year – which is carried in the forthcoming bumper issue of George Orwell Studies. Guest-edited by Sarah…Read more George Orwell Studies
Recent Publications
November 2019 On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography by D.J. Taylor "... Taylor elucidates the environmental influences on the book. Then he examines 1984’s post-publication life, including its role as a tool to understand our language, politics, and government." Orwell Reconsidered by Stephen Ingle "This book will be of significant interest to students and other…Read more Recent Publications
Winston Smith Arrives in Valhalla
by Carol Biederstadt "And terrifying it truly is" * In these disquieting times, Americans have become almost morbidly fascinated with George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Allusions to Orwell and the dystopian world he created have become ubiquitous in today’s polarized political climate, bandied about by newscasters and pundits and transmitted through our telescreens with alarming…Read more Winston Smith Arrives in Valhalla
Toftcombs House 2019
It was a bright, cold day in October and the clocks were striking 13:00 when the first guests arrived at the luxuriously-appointed house Toftcombs, by bucolic Borders Biggar, for a meeting of the Orwell Society. (Photograph by Quentin Kopp) Quentin and Liz Kopp, indefatigable hosts, were already there. Quentin’s father Georges Kopp and his…Read more Toftcombs House 2019
2020 Dystopian Fiction Prize
* 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of George Orwell, author of the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. As part of our activities marking the anniversary, The Orwell Society is organising its sixth annual short story competition for current students (both BA and MA) at British universities. Dystopian narratives of 3,000 words should…Read more 2020 Dystopian Fiction Prize
Orwell in the High Chaparral
When Orwell Society member Christopher Angel let us know that he would be attending the exhibition and lecture by Professor Peter Stansky at the University of New Mexico we asked him for a report. Here is Christopher Angel's account of a time well spent. * * Albuquerque, New Mexico, with its dry, dusty chaparral, may…Read more Orwell in the High Chaparral
