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Overview
This year’s longlist of twelve range across place and time, from counterfactual historical fiction, to reflections on identity and community, to apocalyptic visions of climate breakdown. This is the third year that the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, sponsored by the Orwell Estate’s literary agents, A. M. Heath, and Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, has been awarded. The prize rewards outstanding novels and collections of short stories first published in the UK that illuminate major social and political themes, present or past, through the art of narrative.
The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021
14 participants (12 books)
Overview
This year’s longlist of twelve range across place and time, from counterfactual historical fiction, to reflections on identity and community, to apocalyptic visions of climate breakdown. This is the third year that the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, sponsored by the Orwell Estate’s literary agents, A. M. Heath, and Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, has been awarded. The prize rewards outstanding novels and collections of short stories first published in the UK that illuminate major social and political themes, present or past, through the art of narrative.
