Olivette Otele, Bruno Macaes, Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott longlisted for The 2021 Orwell Prizes

This year AFRICAN EUROPEANS  by Olivette Otele and HISTORY HAS BEGUN by Bruno Macaes have been longlisted for The 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott together have been longlisted for The 2021 Orwell Prize for Journalism.

The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing. Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.

The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. The winning entries should strive to meet Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. They should be of equal excellence in style and content – the writing must be both political and artful – and live up to the values of The Orwell Foundation.

The prizes are awarded for the following four categories:

• The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
• The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
• The Orwell Prize for Journalism
• The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils