Orwell prize
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About us, without us: engaging young school students in politics is toughThe Orwell Youth Prize encourages school students to express themselves politically – but what helps and hinders teachers when shaping our citizens?
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Media Monkey: Martin Sorrell, dead lesbians and Thatcher matchmakingJohnny Hornby on WPP succession, City AM’s Christian May gets his girl and kickstarting Jacquie Lawrence’s drama
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Orwell prize shortlist dominated by books on Middle EastFinalists for political writing award include books about Islamic militancy, the Egyptian revolution and the aftermath of the Iraq war
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Louisa Lim: 'I wanted to discover how Chinese people became complicit in an act of mass amnesia'The author of the Orwell prize-shortlisted The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited describes how she uncovered the fear, forgetting and self-censorship of those involved in the massacre of 1989
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Guardian journalist Martin Chulov wins Orwell prize for Middle East coverageReporter recognised for his coverage of the crises across the Arab world and the rise of the Islamic State
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James Meek wins Orwell prize for political writingPrivate Island, his study of how the growth of privatisation has affected the UK, ‘more than passes the Orwell test of political writing as art’
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The Orwell prize 2015 shortlist – in picturesGet to know the contenders for Britain’s leading political writing award, ranging from India to China and the UK, and taking in reportage, history and biography
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Orwell Prize longlist includes Jimmy Savile biographySearch for ‘the real Savile’ lines up alongside life of Roy Jenkins and Nick Davies’ account of the phone hacking scandal
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Do you really know what ‘Orwellian’ means?Reading group: The millions of people using the term seem confident that they know – and use it with equal confidence to signify often diametrically opposed meanings
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Alan Johnson on winning the Orwell book prize: 'I thought I was writing something people would appreciate'
Former home secretary Alan Johnson is that rare thing: a genuinely popular Westminster figure. He has now won two major awards for his first memoir, and there's more to come, he tells Mark Lawson
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Orwell prize 2014 longlist – in pictures
From Moscow to Grantham and from Beijing to Guantánamo Bay, the longlist for the 2014 Orwell prize runs the gamut from lost childhood to gender divisions. Take a look at the 14 titles in the running
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Peter Preston: Suzanne Moore leads a phalanx of angry women with a lot to say about the flood of abuse cases, but men have signally failed to rise to the challengeAbuse of women and children – even nice guys are guilty of looking away
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Orwell prize shortlist led by posthumous Marie Colvin collectionWork of journalist killed last year in Syria lines up with finalists for UK's leading prize in political writing
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Orwell prize 2013 longlist – in pictures
Gallery: The books longlisted for the 2013 Orwell prize for political writing span the globe from Basra to Miami and from the far right to the frontiers of medical research
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George Orwell Day begins annual commemoration
Celebration of author's enduring influence marked with radio season and essay giveaway
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Blogging enriched the Orwell prize, but times have changed
Jean Seaton: Though blogging at its best can provide an insightful view from the outside, it has now been subsumed into the mainstream
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The Orwell prize gets HitchedRichard Seymour: There were two sides to Christopher Hitchens, and I fear it is the mean-spirited one that has been honoured with an Orwell prize
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The sound and fury of book-prize brouhaha leaves literature nowhere
Robert McCrum: As the fuss surrounding the Pulitzer and Orwell prizes shows, book awards are increasingly more about hype than substance
Books blog My most memorable Orwell moment? Getting Nineteen Eighty-Four into Guantanámo Bay