1. George Orwell
George Orwell /
Eric Arthur Blair
(1903 - 1950) -
English novelist,
essayist and critic.

2. Books
His famous works are
the dystopian novel
‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’
(1949) and the novell
‘Animal Farm’(1945).
Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

3. Neologisms
Orwell has invented such popular words as cold war, Big Brother,
thought police, Room 101, doublethink, and thought crime.

4. Becoming a writer
Eric Arthur Blair was
born on 25 June 1903 in
India.
In 1927 he decided to
become a writer.
In 1928, he moved to
Paris. He described his
first years there in his
book, 'Down and Out in
Paris and
London‘(1933).
His first novel was
'Burmese Days'(1934).
Down and Out in Paris
and London(1933)
Burmese Days(1934)

5. Socialism
He was an anarchist in the late
1920s, but by the 1930s he had
become a socialist.
In 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain to
fight for the Republicans against
Franco's Nationalists where he
became an anti-Stalinist.

6. Literature influences
In an autobiographical piece Twentieth Century Authors(1940),
Orwell wrote:
"The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are:
Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert
and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H.
Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me
most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his
power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.“

7. Journalism
Between 1941 and
1943, Orwell worked for
BBC. In 1943, he
became literary editor of
the Tribune, a weekly
magazine.

8. Death
Orwell was a heavy smoker.
21 January 1950 Eric Arthur
Blair died of tuberculosis

9. Orwell’s six rules for writers
In his essay ‘Politics and the English Language’ (1946), Orwell
provides six rules for writers:
• Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you
are used to seeing in print.
• Never use a long word where a short one will do.
• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
• Never use the passive where you can use the active.
• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you
can think of an everyday English equivalent.
• Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright
barbarous.

10. Relationship
Orwell was married to Eileen O'Shaughnessy until her death in
1945. Before Eileen’s death the couple had adopted a son, who
they named Richard Horatio Blair.
Near the end of his life, Orwell married Sonia Brownell.
Eileen O'Shaughnessy Sonia BrownellOrwell and his son Richard