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Orwell Prize Nominations Announced

Posted at 7:32PM Thursday 27 Mar 2008

The Orwell prize for political writing is awarded annually to two writers, one for journalism and one for a book, who are judged to have best achieved George Orwell's aim "to make political writing into an art".

A record 54 journalists and 181 books entered this year's awards.

The two Orwell prizes are sponsored by the George Orwell Memorial Fund, which was set up in 1981, and the Political Quarterly, the magazine founded by a group of leftwing thinkers in 1930.

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