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Orwell Prize
The Orwell Prize, based at University College London, is a British prize for political writing. The Prize is awarded by The Orwell Foundation, an independent charity (Registered Charity No 1161563, formerly "The Orwell Prize") governed by a board of trustees. Four prizes are awarded each year: one each for a fiction (established 2019) and non-fiction book on politics, one for journalism and one for "Exposing Britain's Social Evils" (established 2015); between 2009 and 2012, a fifth prize was awarded for blogging. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". In 2014, the Youth Orwell Prize was launched, targeted at school years 9 to 13 in order to "support and inspire a new generation of politically engaged young writers". In 2015, The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils, sponsored and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, was launched. The British political th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = £1.544 billion (2019/20) , chancellor = Anne, Princess Royal(as Chancellor of the University of London) , provost = Michael Spence , head_label = Chair of the council , head = Victor L. L. Chu , free_label = Visitor , free = Sir Geoffrey Vos , academic_staff = 9,100 (2020/21) , administrative_staff = 5,855 (2020/21) , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , coordinates = , campus = Urban , city = London, England , affiliations = , colours = Purple and blue celeste , nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apeirogon (novel)
''Apeirogon'' is a novel by Colum McCann, published in February 2020. The novel explores the conflict in the Middle East. It follows the story of two men who each lost a daughter. One is Palestinian, the other Israeli. Plot The story follows two real life figures: Rami Elhanan, an Israeli graphic designer, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian scholar and previous political prisoner. Consisting of 1001 short sections, the two central figures bond over the untimely deaths of their respective daughters. Reviews Reviews for the book have been generally positive. Charles Finch in ''The Washington Post'' described the book as "a loving, thoughtful, grueling novel. Shoiab Alam, writing in '' The Daily Star'', hailed the novel as "a masterful and timely literary response to heregion's neverending horrors." However, the international best-selling Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa calls it "Another colonialist misstep in commercial publishing" that "mystifies the colonisation of Palestine a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjana Ahuja
Anjana Ahuja ( अंजना आहूजा ) is a British Indian science journalist and a former columnist for ''The Times''. She is now a contributing writer at the ''Financial Times''. She also contributes to ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''Prospect'', ''New Scientist'' and the ''Radio Times''. She was named Best Science Commentator at the 2013 Comment Awards. Ahuja, who was educated at a comprehensive school in Essex, read physics at Imperial College London, and then took a PhD in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe. Early career After receiving her PhD in 1994, Ahuja was hired by ''The Times'' as a graduate trainee journalist. She wrote the weekly ''Science Notebook'' column in ''The Times'', and was also a regular feature writer. Her articles have twice been nominated for the Association of British Science Writers awards, and won the 1998 EMMA award for Best Print Journalism. Her column covered all areas of scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dawn Of Everything
''The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity'' is a 2021 book by anthropologist and anarchist activist David Graeber, and archaeologist David Wengrow. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2021 by Allen Lane (an imprint of Penguin Books). Graeber and Wengrow finished the book around August 2020. Its American edition is 704 pages long, including a 63-page bibliography. It was a finalist for the Orwell Prize#The Orwell Prize for Political Writing (2019–present), Orwell Prize for Political Writing (2022). Describing the diversity of early human societies, the book critiques traditional narratives of history's linear development from Prehistory, primitivism to civilization. Instead, ''The Dawn of Everything'' posits that humans lived in large, complex, but decentralized polities for millennia. It relies on archaeological evidence to show that early societies were diverse and developed numerous political structures. ''The Dawn of Everything'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wengrow
David Wengrow (born 25 July 1972) is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He co-authored the international bestseller '' The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity'' which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in 2022. Wengrow has contributed essays on topics such as social inequality and climate change to ''The Guardian'' and ''The New York Times''. In 2021 he was ranked No. 10 in ArtReview’s Power 100 list of the most influential people in art. Education Wengrow enrolled at the University of Oxford in 1993, obtaining a BA in archaeology and anthropology. He went on to qualify for an MSt in world archaeology in 1998 and then studied for a D.Phil. under the supervision of Roger Moorey completed in 2001. Andrew Sherratt was a notable influence during Wengrow's time at Oxford. Academic career Between 2001 and 2004 Wengrow was Henri Frankfort Fellow at the Warburg Institute and Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Fourth Time, We Drowned
Sally Hayden is an Irish journalist and writer. A foreign correspondent, she has reported from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. Her book ''My Fourth Time, We Drowned'', an investigation into the migrant crisis, was published in 2022 and awarded The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022, the 2022 Michel Déon Prize, and is the Overall Book of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards. Early life Hayden obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin in 2012. Hayden also holds a Masters degree in International Relations from Trinity College Dublin. Career Hayden has written for The BBC, ''TIME'', ''The Guardian'', ''Newsweek'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Al Jazeera'', ''CNN International'', ''NBC News'', ''Channel 4 News'', ''The New York Times'', ''Thomson Reuters Foundation News'', ''Magnum Photos'', ''The Irish Times'', ''The Financial Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', RTÉ. In 2014, she was staff writer with ''VICE News''. In 2020, she was award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
''The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'' is a 2019 non-fiction book by Shoshana Zuboff which looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation that she calls " surveillance capitalism". While industrial capitalism exploited and controlled nature with devastating consequences, surveillance capitalism exploits and controls human nature with a totalitarian order as the endpoint of the development. Premise Zuboff states that surveillance capitalism "unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data hichare declared as a proprietary ''behavioural surplus'', fed into advanced manufacturing processes known as 'machine intelligence', and fabricated into ''prediction products'' that anticipate what you will do now, soon, and later." She states that these new capitalist products ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Deep Time Journey
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A True Story Of Murder And Memory In Northern Ireland
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Things Like These
''Small Things Like These'' is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Booker Prize. Premise "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church." Reception ''Small Things Like These'' was generally well-received by critics and received starred reviews from '' Kirkus Reviews'' and '' Library Journal.'' Multiple reviewers commented on the moral storytelling, which comes across as "a sort of anti-''Christmas Carol''." ''Kirkus'' called the book " stunning feat of storytelling and moral clarity." '' The Herald'' said ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
