Orwell Prize Winners

The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. Every year, we award prizes for the work – the book, the journalism and (s ...more

Winners

	Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 4.21 avg rating — 55,164 ratings Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4) by Ali Smith 4.11 avg rating — 8,163 ratings Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 753 ratings Orwell Prize for Political Writing (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 217,795 ratings Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 4.45 avg rating — 84,468 ratings Orwell Prize for Political Writing (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milkman by Anna Burns 3.54 avg rating — 55,771 ratings Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey 4.03 avg rating — 5,089 ratings Orwell Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee by John Bew 4.46 avg rating — 955 ratings Orwell Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 4.04 avg rating — 1,645 ratings Orwell Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Private Island: How the UK Was Sold by James Meek 3.92 avg rating — 397 ratings Orwell Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Boy by Alan Johnson 4.21 avg rating — 3,259 ratings Orwell Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by A.T. Williams 4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings Orwell Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 289 ratings Orwell Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham 4.14 avg rating — 2,505 ratings Orwell Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's by Andrea Gillies (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 649 ratings Orwell Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown 3.43 avg rating — 312 ratings Orwell Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh 4.06 avg rating — 939 ratings Orwell Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy 3.78 avg rating — 76 ratings Orwell Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moses Citizen and Me by Delia Jarrett-Macauley 3.21 avg rating — 33 ratings Orwell Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class by Michael Collins 3.90 avg rating — 80 ratings Orwell Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century by Robert Cooper 3.75 avg rating — 217 ratings Orwell Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hoo Hahs And Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991 2001 by Francis Wheen 3.93 avg rating — 69 ratings Orwell Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter 3.91 avg rating — 237 ratings Orwell Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond by Michael Ignatieff 3.57 avg rating — 110 ratings Orwell Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of Stephen Lawrence by Brian Cathcart (Goodreads Author) 4.55 avg rating — 71 ratings Orwell Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life by D.M. Thomas 3.96 avg rating — 72 ratings Orwell Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jennie Lee: A Life by Patricia Hollis 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings Orwell Prize (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane 4.15 avg rating — 751 ratings Orwell Prize (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland by Fionnuala O'Connor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings Orwell Prize (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven 3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings Orwell Prize (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars