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Em que ano George Orwell morreu?
21 de janeiro de 1950
George Orwell/Data de falecimento
Onde e quando nasceu George Orwell?
Motihari, Índia
George Orwell/Local de nascimento
Quando nasceu George Orwell?
25 de junho de 1903
George Orwell/Data de nascimento
Qual a importância de George Orwell?
Considerado talvez o melhor cronista da cultura inglesa do século XX, Orwell dedicou-se a escrever resenhas, ficção, artigos jornalísticos polémicos, crítica literária e poesia. Ele é mais conhecido pelo romance distópico Nineteen Eighty-Four, escrito em 1949, e pela novela satírica Animal Farm (1945).
Taylor is an author, journalist and critic. His Biography of Orwell, Orwell: the Life won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award. D.J. Taylor is a Trustee of The Orwell Foundation. You can find more work about Orwell in our library.
Does George Orwell have a wife and kids?
His critically acclaimed Orwell biography, Orwell: The Life (2003) won the Whitbread Biography Award, and he gave the 2005 Orwell Lecture entitled ‘Projections of the Inner “I”: George Orwell’s Fiction’. He is married with three children and lives in Norwich.
Where did George Orwell go to school as a child?
Happily for the family finances – never flourishing – Orwell was a studious child. From St Cyprian’s preparatory school in Eastbourne, a legendary establishment that also educated Cyril Connolly and Cecil Beaton, he won a King’s Scholarship to Eton College, arriving at the school in May 1917.
Why did George Orwell go to Burma?
Orwell’s five-year stint in Burma is often seen as a mournful period of parentally-ordained exile. However both sides of his family were professionally attached to the Eastern Empire, and his stated reason for applying for the Burma posting was that he had relatives there.