Orwell Political Writing Book Prize 2024

by The Orwell Foundation
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9 books
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.
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Political Writing
Winner
Finalists

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

A Palestine Story
Nathan Thrall, 2024

Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, 2023

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad

A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
Daniel Finkelstein, 2024

Our Enemies Will Vanish

The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
Yaroslav Trofimov, 2024

Revolutionary Acts

Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
Jason Okundaye, 2024

The Achilles Trap

Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Steve Coll, 2024

The Incarcerations

Alpa Shah, 2024

We Are Free to Change the World

Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Lyndsey Stonebridge, 2024