George Orwell

Eric Blair's pen name: the plain-style conscience who saw through every ideology from Burma to Barcelona.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1903 – 1950

language

English

region

Bengal, England, Burma, Spain

notable works

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia

Core Principles & Analysis

• He served five years as a Burma police officer before writing.
• A throat wound in the Spanish Civil War ended his front-line service.
• 'Orwellian' entered the language for the surveillance state he imagined.

Sources

• Wikipedia: George Orwell