While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. George Orwell died in 1950, but he’s in the newspapers nearly every day. In the past few years alone ...

Radio 4 presents a journey through the life and work of George Orwell, running from late January 2013. Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

Richard Haugh/BBC The artist Pure Evil has painted a mural at the entrance to Southwold's pier celebrating George Orwell Mr Blair spoke as a new biography on Orwell by Norwich writer and novelist ...

John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like watching ten movies about his life.' Joseph Millson on The Real George Orwell dramas Joseph ...

The George Orwell statue has been unveiled outside BBC New Broadcasting House The BBC headquarters in London has got a new resident: he's tall, bronze and likes a smoke. A statue of novelist ...

But by far the greatest beneficiary of our newly piqued national anxiety is George Orwell’s 1984. Soon after senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that the administration was issuing ...

Keep the Nine Pro-Life Laws Aren’t to Blame for Increased ... political climate has been the Left’s co-opting of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 as a dramatic warning of the dangers ...

An assistant principal at Dapto High School, Darcy Moore runs his own online George Orwell studies blog with original articles uncovering previously unknown aspects of the author's life.