Eric Arthur Blair
pen names: George Orwell.
born Bengal, India: 25 June 1903
died Oxfordshire, England: 21 January 1950
George Orwell was the pseudonym of the Indian-born English author of novels, poems and essays. He was also a journalist and critic. His literary work covers politics, literature, language and culture, and feature lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and his support of democratic socialism.
Only the two works for which is most well-known are of SFF interest.
The novella Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) is an allegorical satire in the form of a beast fable.
Orwell's most famous book is the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and the most famous twentieth Century English-language dystopia and filmed twice, in 1955 and 1984.
The influence of his work in popular culture, political culture, and as in influence in SFF can be seen by the sheer number of neologisms that have become part of the English language, including ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole’, ‘doublethink’ and ‘thought crime’. Even the adjective ‘Orwellian’ is used to describe totalitarian and authoritarian social conditions.
He died of Tuberculosis very shortly after the publication of Nineteen-Eighty Four.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: George Orwell
Wikipedia page: George Orwell - Wikipedia
pen names: George Orwell.
born Bengal, India: 25 June 1903
died Oxfordshire, England: 21 January 1950
George Orwell was the pseudonym of the Indian-born English author of novels, poems and essays. He was also a journalist and critic. His literary work covers politics, literature, language and culture, and feature lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and his support of democratic socialism.
Only the two works for which is most well-known are of SFF interest.
The novella Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) is an allegorical satire in the form of a beast fable.
Orwell's most famous book is the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and the most famous twentieth Century English-language dystopia and filmed twice, in 1955 and 1984.
The influence of his work in popular culture, political culture, and as in influence in SFF can be seen by the sheer number of neologisms that have become part of the English language, including ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole’, ‘doublethink’ and ‘thought crime’. Even the adjective ‘Orwellian’ is used to describe totalitarian and authoritarian social conditions.
He died of Tuberculosis very shortly after the publication of Nineteen-Eighty Four.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: George Orwell
Wikipedia page: George Orwell - Wikipedia
