The Orwell Foundation

19/06/2026

We are proud to be co-hosting a timely and important evening at The Frontline Club in London this coming Monday.

Andrey Kurkov, author of Three Years on Fire — his diary of the third year of Russia's full-scale invasion — and Manisha Ganguly, investigative journalist at The Guardian and a leading figure in using open-source methods to expose war crimes, join our Chair Kim Darroch for a conversation on war, hope, and impunity.

Both Andrey and Manisha are shortlisted for this year's Orwell Prizes, with the winners revealed Thursday 25 June.

'War, Hope and Impunity in Ukraine' runs from 7–8.30pm on Monday 22 June at the Frontline Club in London.

Final tickets on sale. Get yours via Eventbrite:

Andrey Kurkov and Manisha Ganguly in conversation with Kim Darroch.

08/06/2026

Where does Orwell sit in your top 100 novels?

1984 - published on this day in 1949 - came 16th in The Guardian's recent writers' poll, climbing to 8th when they asked readers...

After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped by a new entry at number 1

08/06/2026

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." - Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's chilling, and thrilling, warning to the future, was first published on this day in 1949.

In 2016, we brought together actors, writers, journalists and members of the public for a start-to-finish reading of the novel in Senate House, London, opened by Richard Blair, Orwell's son.

Watch it back on YouTube:

Video start 11:08The Orwell Foundation and UCL Festival of Culture are delighted to announce a live, start-to-finish reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four in Senat...

29/05/2026

Join The Orwell Foundation and Political Quarterly for a timely debate on Englishness, Britishness and the Populist Challenge, inspired by Orwell's seminal essay The Lion and the Unicorn.

Visit our website www.orwellfoundation.com to register for free, and to see all our upcoming events.

27/05/2026

What does it take to write about political upheaval from the inside?

We're kicking off this year's Orwell Prize events with a special evening in partnership with Libreria Bookshop, London.

Three of this year's nominated authors - Tahmima Anam (Uprising), Karen Bartlett (The Escape from Kabul) and Sam Dalrymple (Shattered Lands) - will discuss their shortlisted books with Rohan Silva, chair of the panel for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

📅 9 June, 6.30pm
📍 Second Home Spitalfields

This is our first shortlist event of the year, and it's free! Spaces are limited, so register now with our hosts Libreria:

Tahmima Anam (author of Uprising, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2026), Karen Bartlett (author of The Escape from Kabul, shortlisted for the

06/05/2026

Join us next week as we celebrate the year's best political writing, inspired by George Orwell's enduring values of bravery, integrity, decency and fidelity to truth.

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20/04/2026

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

30/03/2026

“George Orwell has been dead for 75 years and he has never felt more alive.”

Orwell & Truth: The Legacy of Author George Orwell is now open at New York University Kimmel Windows, LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village. On view through December 1, 2026. Free and open to the public. Curated in partnership with The Orwell Foundation and UCL, home of the UNESCO-registered Orwell Archive.

30/03/2026

“George Orwell has been dead for 75 years and he has never felt more alive.”

Orwell & Truth: The Legacy of Author George Orwell is now open at New York University Kimmel Windows, LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village. On view through December 1, 2026.

Free and open to the public. Curated in partnership with The Orwell Foundation and UCL, home of the UNESCO-registered Orwell Archive.

23/03/2026

📢 Calling all early-career reporters!

Homelessness is one of the defining crises of our time, and the journalists who cover it shape how the public and policymakers respond.

The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, sponsored by Centre for Homelessness Impact, is exclusively open to journalists in the first eight years of their career (including those on accredited courses). Worth £3,000 to the winner, it exists to find the next generation of talent and give it a platform.

The deadline is Tuesday 31 March 2026. Don't miss your chance to change the conversation.

🔗 Find out more and enter: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-prizes/about/about-the-prizes/reporting-homelessness/