Named in honour of the pioneering political journalist and prophetic novelist George Orwell, the Orwell Prizes are Britain’s premier award for political writing in both non-fiction and fiction.
Zooming in on a group of Hungarian activists to shed light on the world-changing events just before and after the collapse of the USSR, The Picnic captures the wild dreams and disillusionment of 1989 with extraordinary vividness. Recounting the greatest border breach in Cold War history, Longo’s masterful work brilliantly merges the personal and the political.
Following three Libyans in London, My Friends is a deeply compassionate and eye-opening novel about exile, the price of freedom and the immeasurable value of human connection from the award-winning author of The Return and A Month in Siena.
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