2025 Orwell Prizes Announced

The U.K.’s Orwell Foundation has revealed the 2025 winners for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Ukrainian novelist and war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina has posthumously won the political writing prize for her book Looking at Women, Looking at War, and Irish author Donal Ryan has won the political fiction prize for his lyrical novel Heart, Be at Peace.

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