Congratulations to Claire Keegan on winning The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for Small Things Like These, and to Sally Hayden on taking the award for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing for ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned,’ announced 14 July 2022.

The 19 books listed as finalists for the Orwell Prizes for Political Writing and Political Fiction 2022 represent what our independent judging panels consider the strongest political writing being written and published in the U.K. today. We are delighted to share such a wealth of exciting writing, all of which lives up to Orwell’s stated aim: to turn political writing into an art.