Eric Blair

Retro blogging.

I've added a link to the Orwell Diaries, that the Orwell Prize has been publishing.

The Orwell Prize is Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing – run by the Media Standards Trust, the Orwell Trust and Political Quarterly. Every year, it awards a prize to the book, and for the journalism (and in 2009 for the first time, to the blog) which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.

Since 9th August 2008, we have been blogging George Orwell’s diaries from 1938 in real time, 70 years to the day since each entry was originally written. The diaries start as Orwell heads to Morocco (with his wife Eileen) to recuperate from injury and illness, and end in 1942 (or 2012) as the Second World War rages.

If you're a fan of Orwell's writing (especially if you've delved deeper than Animal Farm and 1984), you'll probably enjoy his posts.

Thanks to the LA Times for the heads up on the diaries.