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The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. Here is the 2017 longlist:
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic
Book
On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military...
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2017 Hisham Matar was 19 when his...
Libya Politics Biography
The Marches
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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017. "This is travel writing at its best." (Katherine Norbury,...
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE 'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives'...
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A prize open to all works of fiction written in English and published in the UK. All genres and forms of literature are eligible, except work written primarily for children.
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution & War
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
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In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of...
Conflict politics
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017...
Golden Hill
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New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and...
The Argonauts
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family ...
Biography memoir social issues
The Sport of Kings
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...