George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair born 25

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair, born 25 June 1903 in Motihari (India) in the family of a member of opium department of the British colonial administration in India.

He studied at the school of St. . Cyprian, in 1917, he received a scholarship and attended until 1921 Eton College.

English novelist and essayist. Best known as the author of the anti-utopian cult novel "1984" and the novel "Animal Farm".

From 1922 to 1927 he served in the colonial police in Burma, then a long lived in the UK and Europe, living doing odd jobs, then he began to write fiction and journalism. Since 1935, published under the pen name "George Orwell» .

Was a member of the Spanish Civil War 1936 -1939, fighting in the ranks of the militia formed party POUM, faced with the manifestations of the factional struggle among leftists. During the Second World War, led the anti-fascist program on the BBC.

He died of tuberculosis in London January 21, 1950.

Famous works: • Down and Out in Paris and London • Burmese days • Keep the Aspidistra Flying • Coming Up for Air • Homage to Catalonia • Animal Farm • Nineteen Eighty-Four

Poems: • Awake! Young Men of England (1914) • Ballade (1929) • A Dressed Man and a Naked Man (1933) • A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been (1935) • Ironic Poem About Prostitution (1936) • Kitchener (1916) • The Lesser Evil (1924) • A Little Poem (1935) • On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master’s Voice Gramophone Factory (1934) • Our Minds Are Married, but We Are Too Young (1918) • The Pagan (1918) • Poem from Burma (1922— 1927) • Romance (1925) • Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days (1933) • Suggested by a Toothpaste Advertisement (1918— 1919) • Summer-like for an Instant (1933)

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