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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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Elendighedens London og Paris

I sin første bog tager George Orwell os med tilbage til de kummerlige forhold han levede under i 1920'ernes London og Paris. De glamourøse storbyer bliver vendt på vrangen i en beskrivelse af kampen for ren overlevelse, både den fattige forfatter og de menneskeskæbner han møder på utaknemmelige arbejdspladser og væggelusbefængte herberger. Som altid på de svages side tager Orwell os med ned i samfundets underverden i en rørende, men også levende og humorisitsk erindring, hvor tusinder slider sig halvt ihjel for de få. George Orwell (1903-1950) var en af det 20. århundredets mest berømte forfattere. Han er mest kendt for den dystopiske overvågningsroman "1984", der siden udgivelsen i 1949 og filmatiseringen fra titelåret er blevet en kultklassiker. Begrebet "orwellsk" bruges stadig i litteraturkritikken om bøger, der beskriver totalitære organisationer eller samfund. Den politiske og samfundsmæssige kritik er gennemgribende både i Orwells arbejde som forfatter, journalist og essayist, hvorfor han i dag har status som både kulturelt og politisk ikon.
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