George Orwell Novelist, Essayist and Critic

George Orwell is a novelist, essayist and critic. Hes famous as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. List of Novels 1934 - Burmese Days1935 - A Clergymans Daughter1936 - Keep the Aspidistra Flying1939 - Coming Up for Air1945 - Animal Farm1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four Nonfiction Books 1933 - Down and Out in Paris and London1937 - The Road to Wigan Pier1938 - Homage to Catalonia1947 - The English People Animal Farm In late 1939, Orwell wrote for his first collection of essays,  Inside the Whale. For the next year, he was busy writing reviews for plays, films and books. In March 1940 his long association with  Tribune  began with a review of a sergeants account of  Napoleons  retreat from Moscow. Throughout this period Orwell kept a wartime diary. In August 1941, Orwell obtained war work when he was taken on full-time by the BBCs Eastern Service. In October, David Astor invited Orwell to write for him at The Observer  Ã¢â‚¬â€ Orwells first article appeared in March 1942.   In March 1943 Orwells mother died and around the same time he was starting work on a new book, which turned out to be  Animal Farm. In September 1943, Orwell resigned from his BBC position. He was set on writing  Animal Farm. Just six days before his last day of service, in November 1943, his adaptation of the  fairy tale,  Hans Christian Andersens  The Emperors New Clothes  was broadcast. It was a genre in which he was greatly interested and which appeared on  Animal Farms title-page. In November 1943, Orwell was appointed literary editor at  Tribune, where he was on staff until early 1945, writing more than 80 book reviews. In March 1945, Orwells wife Eileen went into the  hospital for a  hysterectomy  and died. Orwell returned to London to cover the 1945 general election  at the beginning of July.  Animal Farm: A Fairy Story  was published in Britain on August 17, 1945, and a year later in the U.S., on August 26, 1946. Nineteen Eighty-Four Animal Farm  struck a particular resonance in the post-war climate and its worldwide success made Orwell a sought-after figure. For the next four years, Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for  Tribune,  The Observer  and the  Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many smaller political and  literary magazines  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ with writing his best-known work,  Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949. In June 1949,  Nineteen Eighty-Four  was published to immediate critical and popular acclaim. Legacy During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books  Down and Out in Paris and London  (describing a time of poverty in these cities),  The Road to Wigan Pier  (describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England) and  Homage to Catalonia.   Modern readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles  Animal Farm  and  Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both are powerful novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life. In 1984,  Nineteen Eighty-Four  and  Ray Bradburys  Fahrenheit 451  were honored with the  Prometheus Award  for their contributions to dystopian literature. In 2011, he received the award again for  Animal Farm.