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The Orwell Prizes 2024 Winners

It is our pleasure to confirm The Picnic by Matthew Longo and My Friends by Hisham Matar as the winners of the 2024 Orwell Prizes.

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.

 

The Orwell Prize for Political Writing Winner

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.

The Orwell Prize for Political Writing Shortlist

Eve
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Eve
Paperback
£12.99 £10.49
The Achilles Trap
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
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The Picnic
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Hardback
£22.00
Revolutionary Acts
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The Incarcerations
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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Our Enemies Will Vanish
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The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Winner

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.

The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlist

Ocean Stirrings
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James
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Hardback
£20.00
Orbital
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Paperback
£9.99
My Friends
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Hardback
£18.99
Ordinary Human Failings
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Caledonian Road
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The Future Future
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Blackouts
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Hardback
£14.99

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Show Me the Bodies
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The New Life
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
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Small Things Like These
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Between Two Fires
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Summer
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The Nickel Boys
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Say Nothing
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Milkman
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Poverty Safari
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Citizen Clem
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£15.99
The Invention of Russia
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Private Island
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£8.99
This Boy
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£12.99
A Very British Killing
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Dead Men Risen
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£14.99
The Rule of Law
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£10.99