Akwaeke Emezi, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Olive Otele on the 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

 Akwaeke Emezi, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Olive Otele are on the longlist for the 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Named in honour of English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic George Orwell,  The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing. The Orwell Foundation annually awards prizes for works which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.

 The prize categories are:  Political Writing Book Prize, Political Fiction Book Prize, Journalism, and Exposing Britain’s Evils Prize.

 Olivette Otele’s African Europeans: An Untold History is being Longlisted in the Political Writing Book Prize category.

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s

Afterlives, and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji are on the Political Fiction Book Prize category.

The shortlists in different categories will be announced in mid-May, while the winners will be announced on or around George Orwell’s birthday on 25th June.

Visit here to see other writers on the longlist.