Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

Two years after her tragic death in a Russian missile strike, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina was posthumously awarded on ...

Donal Ryan has said he is “overjoyed” to have won the prestigious Orwell Prize for political fiction.The Tipperary native was ...

Exclusive UK island, Scarba, was abandoned in the 1960s due to the harsh living conditions and economic hardship, but now ...

Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who was killed in 2023 during a Russian attack on Kramatorsk, has been posthumously ...

Irish writer Donal Ryan has been announced in London as the winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for ...

A War and Justice Diary from Ukraine, traces the lives of Ukrainian women who fell prey to the war’s brutality. The foreword ...

Tipperary writer says win ‘very unexpected’ for novel that explores the 21st century problems of a small, tight-knit ...

George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on ...

Another was Orwell’s Nose (2016), described by its literature professor author John Sutherland as a “pathological biography”. It analysed the role of smells in Orwell’s writing and his private life, ...

English writer George Orwell was born on this day in 1903. Here is a quiz on one of the most well-known and prolific writers ...

The announcement was made on the Orwell Prize's official account on and reported by Ukrinform. “An unforgettable picture of ...