George Orwell

George Orwell was a novelist, essayist, reporter and critic who lived from 1903-1950. He produced different literary criticisms, fiction, and poems alongside his polemical journalism.

Orwell is most well known for his novela Animal Farm and his novel Nineteen Eight-Four and is a highly respected writer who remains extremely influential in today’s popular culture. His name has even become an adjective - ‘Orwellian’ - to describe totalitarian and authoritarian societies in English language.

He has been ranked among the ‘50 greatest British writers since 1945’ by The Times (2008).

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