| The Orwell Prize is a British prize for political writing of outstanding quality. Two prizes are awarded each year: one for a book and one for journalism. Between 2009 and 2012, there was a third prize awarded for blogging. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to 'make political writing into an art'. The prize was founded by Bernard Crick in 1993 using money from the royalties of the hardback edition of his biography of Orwell. Its sponsors are Orwell's adopted son Richard Blair, The Political Quarterly, Media Standards Trust, and A. M. Heath & Company. Crick remained Chair of the judges until 2006. The media historian Professor Jean Seaton has filled this position since 2007. In 2008 the winner in the Journalism category was Johann Hari. In July 2011 the Orwell Prize Council decided to revoke Hari's award and withdraw the prize. Public announcement was delayed as Hari was then under investigation by The Independent for professional misconduct. In September 2011 Hari announced that he was returning his prize "as an act of contrition for the errors I made elsewhere, in my interviews", although he "stands by the articles that won the prize". A few weeks later, the Council of the Orwell Prize confirmed that Hari had returned the plaque but not the £2000 prize money, and issued a statement that one of the articles submitted for the prize, "How multiculturalism is betraying women", published by the Independent in April 2007, "contained inaccuracies and conflated different parts of someone else’s story". In October 2011, the NGO English PEN confirmed that Johann Hari had offered a donation equal to the prize money, in accordance with the wishes of the Orwell Prize trustees. |
Orwell Prize2013Check all the winners of 2013 Orwell Prize.(Click on the Award Name or Winner name to get list of all awards/winners) |
A. T. WilliamsHonored for : A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa |
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