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The Winner of the 2018 Orwell Prize is Announced

By June 27, 2018Literary Awards, News

The Orwell Prize is British literary award given out yearly for political writing of outstanding quality. Each year three prizes are awarded, one for a book, one for journalism, and a recently added category for ‘exposing Britain’s evils’. As always it’s the book prize we’re interested here at For Reading Addicts and the 2018 winner has been announced.

The 2018 Orwell Prize for political literature goes to Scottish rapper Darren McGarvey who performs under the name Loki, who has won the prize for Poverty Safari, a searing examination of the British underclass.

It’s billed as a modern day version of Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and judges believe it’s exactly the book Orwell himself would have wanted to win the prize.

Poverty Safari is part memoir, part polemic and argues that both the political right, and left in the UK do not understand the complexity of poverty as it is experienced by people from the most deprived communities of the UK.

Poverty Safari was originally with a small publishing house but has now been picked up by Picador. The book has received glowing praise from many quarters, including J. K Rowling and in August Loki will be taking the book to the stage with Poverty Safari Live at the Edinburgh Fringe.



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