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Wednesday 19 June 2013

Orwell Book Prize 2013: Marie Colvin heads longlist

Orwell Book Prize longlist includes a posthumous collection of journalism by Marie Colvin, reports Jon Stock.

Orwell prize 2013: Marie Colvin's book, centre, heads a strong field
Orwell prize 2013: Marie Colvin's book, centre, heads a strong field 

The longlist for this year’s prestigious George Orwell book prize was announced today. 12 books, including the late Marie Colvin’s On the Front Line, were chosen from 210 entries.

On the Front Line is a collection of journalism by the late Sunday Times journalist, and is a clear favourite to win the £3,000 prize. It was published in April last year, two months after her death in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

The overall winner of prize will be announced in May, when the judges will be guided by Orwell’s own ambition “to make political writing into an art”.

Other longlisted books include Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma, a scathing attack on the world’s $600bn pharmaceutical industry, and Burying the Typewriter, by Carmen Bugan, who writes about growing up in Ceausescu’s Romania.

Daniel Trilling also made the shortlist with his debut book, Bloody Nasty People, a look at the British National Party and the rise of the far right in Britain (the book's title is borrowed from a Sun headline). Clive Stafford Smith (Injustice) and Raja Shehadeh (Occupation Diaries) have both been longlisted once before.

“This year’s longlisted books show just how carefully they have to be crafted,” said Jean Seaton, Director of the Orwell Prize. “The range of writing, the passion of the research and the variety of manners in this marvellous set of books show a confident important writing culture.”

The three judges for this year's prize are Nikita Lalwani, winner of the Desmond Elliot award, Arifa Akbar, assistant books editor at The Independent, and Baroness Joan Bakewell, the Labour Party life peer, broadcaster and writer. Richard Blair, Orwell's son, is a sponsor of the prize, which is run by the Media Standards Trust, Political Quarterly and the Orwell Trust.

The full longlist of books, many of which have been reviewed by the Telegraph, is as follows:

Burying the Typewriter, by Carmen Bugan (Picador)

On the Front Line, by Marie Colvin (HarperPress)

Plutocrats, by Chrystia Freeland (Penguin)

Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre (4th Estate)

El Narco, by Ioan Grillo (Bloomsbury)

Leaving Alexandria, by Richard Holloway (Canongate Books)

From the Ruins of the Empire, by Pankaj Mishra (Allen Lane)

The Spanish Holocaust, Paul Preston (HarperPress)

Occupation Diaries, by Raja Shehadeh (Profile Books)

Injustice, by Clive Stafford Smith (Harvill Secker)

Bloody Nasty People, by Daniel Trilling (Verso Books)

A Very British Killing, by A. T. Williams (Jonathan Cape)

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