Orwell Political Writing Book Prize 2022

by The Orwell Foundation
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10 books
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’.
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Winner
Shortlist

Uncommon Wealth

Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
Kojo Koram, 2022

Things I Have Withheld

Kei Miller, 2021

The Right to Sex

Amia Srinivasan, 2021

The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow, 2021

Spike

The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
Jeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja, 2021

Shutdown

How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Adam Tooze, 2021

Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit, 2021

Do Not Disturb

The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Michela Wrong, 2021

Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them
Polly Curtis, 2022