{"id":80464,"date":"2021-06-02T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=80464"},"modified":"2021-06-02T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:00:52","slug":"orwell-prize-2021-shortlisted-books-on-political-fiction-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/orwell-prize-2021-shortlisted-books-on-political-fiction-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwell Prize 2021: Shortlisted books on Political Fiction announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80465\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80465 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-02-at-17.12.43.jpeg\" alt=\"Political Fiction\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-02-at-17.12.43.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-02-at-17.12.43-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-02-at-17.12.43-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-02-at-17.12.43-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orwell Prize Political Fiction shortlist announced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Orwell Prize is one of the prestigious prizes for political writing which started in 1994. It is given to works that strive to achieve George Orwell&#8217;s aim \u2018to make political writing into an art\u2019. The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction was first awarded in 2019. A longlist of 12 books was made from the 100 entries that was received for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021. A shortlist of 6 books has been created out of the 12 in the longlist. The six books were selected by judges: Delia Jarrett-Macauley (Chair), Mark Ford, Andrea Stuart and Bea Carvalho. The six books selected by the jury include: <em>Afterlives\u00a0<\/em>by Abdulrazak Gurnah, <em>Apeirogon<\/em> by Colum McCann, <em>Leave the World Behind<\/em> by Rumaan Alam, <em>Summer<\/em> by Ali Smith, <em>The Death of Vivek Oji<\/em> by Akwaeke Emezi, and <em>The Vanishing Half<\/em> by Brit Bennett<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this shortlist we are excited to present a richly international array of novels, creatively inventive and intellectually astute fictional explorations, all of which grapple with big political issues\u2014war, migration, poverty, refugees\u2014and personal challenges, such as the death of a child or the loss of a sibling,&#8221; Delia Jarrett-Macauley, chair of the judges for the Political Fiction Prize, said.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of Orwell Prize 2021 for Political Fiction will be announced on author George Orwell\u2019s birthday on June 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Orwell Prize is one of the prestigious prizes for political writing which started in 1994. 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