George Orwell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Orwell

English author and journalist

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1903

Place of Birth: Motihari, Bihar, India

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1950

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, war correspondent, bookseller, journalist, literary critic, novelist, essayist, opinion journalist, autobiographer, science fiction writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About George Orwell

  • Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic.
  • His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
  • His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics and literature, language and culture.
  • In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian" – describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices – is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", and "Hate week", "Room 101", the "memory hole", and "Newspeak", "doublethink" and "proles", "unperson" and "thoughtcrime".

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