Paul Theroux’s 30th novel, about George Orwell’s years as a policeman in Burma, is part of a well-populated genre: Tan Twan Eng on Somerset Maugham in Malaysia, Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann in ...

Paul Theroux’s Burma Sahib is a master class in interiority. Fictionalizing the life of young George Orwell — just leaving ...

Eric Arthur Blair, universally known as George Orwell, the genius behind the thought ... was the daughter of a teak merchant in Burma (modern-day Myanmar).

The year 2003 marks the centennial of author George Orwell’s birth ... he served for five years with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. In 1936 he signed on with the Left-wing Republican ...

Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric ... Radio 4 will take you on a journey from Burma via Catalonia, Wigan, Jura, Manor Farm along the road that led to ...

“We will never know how George Orwell would feel about being commemorated ... early career working with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. With time, however, he became “increasingly ashamed ...

Many who have read 1984 and worship at the altar of George Orwell don't know, or conveniently ignore, the fact that the man born Eric Blair was a cop. Orwell arrived in Burma at the age of 19 and ...

To honor George Orwell’s 75th death anniversary, the Royal Mint released a special 2-pound coin celebrating his novel 1984, reflecting on his complex legacy.

George Woodcock,Mulk Raj Anand,George Orwell,William Empson, Herbert Read & Edmund Blunden Orwell's essay 'Shooting an Elephant' was published in 1936 Eric Blair worked in Burma as an Imperial ...