Orwell Prize for Political Writing — Complete Winners List

11 years of winners · Orwell Foundation · Since 1994 · ← Back to award page


2025	Looking at Women, Looking at War	Victoria Amelina	Pushkin Press
2024	The Picnic: A Journey Through Europe's Forgotten Borderlands	Matthew Longo	W. W. Norton
2023	Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen	Peter Apps	Oneworld
2022	My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route	Sally Hayden	Melville House
2021	Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia	Joshua Yaffa	Tim Duggan Books
2020	Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me	Kate Clanchy	Picador
2019	Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland	Patrick Radden Keefe	Doubleday
2018	Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass	Darren McGarvey	Luath Press
2017	Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee	John Bew	Riverrun
2016	The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War	Arkady Ostrovsky	Viking
2015	Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else	James Meek	Verso