Category:George Orwell: Difference between revisions

| name = George Orwell

| image = George Orwell press photo.jpg

| alt = A photo showing head and shoulders of a middle-aged man with a slim moustache.

| caption = Orwell's [[Wikipedia:press card|press card]] portrait, 1943

| pseudonym = George Orwell, John Freeman

| birth_name = Eric Arthur Blair

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|6|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = [[Motihari]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|1|21|1903|6|25|df=y}}

| death_place = [[University College Hospital]], London, England, United Kingdom

| resting_place = [[Sutton Courtenay]], Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

| occupation = Novelist, political writer and journalist

| language = English

| nationality = British

| ethnicity =

| citizenship =

| alma_mater = [[Eton College]]

| years_active = 1928–1950

| genre = [[Dystopia]], [[roman à clef]], satire

| subject = [[Anti-fascism]] and [[anti-Stalinist left]], [[democratic socialism]], [[literary criticism]], news, [[polemic]]

| notableworks = ''[[The Road to Wigan Pier]]'' (1937)<br>''[[Homage to Catalonia]]'' (1938)<br>''[[Animal Farm]]'' (1945)<br>''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' (1949)<br>[[Essays of George Orwell|Various essays]]

| spouse = [[Eileen O'Shaughnessy]] (1935–45, her death)<br>[[Sonia Brownell]] (1949–50, until his death)

| children = Richard Horatio Blair (adopted)

| relatives = Richard Walmesley Blair (father)<br>Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin) (mother)<br>Marjorie Blair Dakin (sister)<br>Avril (sister)

==See also==

*{{Wikipedia-inline|George Orwell}}