Shortlists have been released for the £3,000 (about $3,735) Orwell Prize for Political Fiction as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing (nonfiction), both of which recognize works that "strive to meet Orwell's own ambition 'to make political writing into an art.' " The winners will be named July 14. Shortlists for all four Orwell Prize categories are available here. The book finalists are:
Political Writing
Behind Closed Doors by Polly Curtis
Spike by Jeremy Farrar & Anjana Ahuja
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
Uncommon Wealth by Kojo Karam
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
Shutdown by Adam Tooze
Do Not Disturb by Michela Wrong
Political Fiction
Cwen by Alice Albinia
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Appliance by J.O. Morgan
There Are More Things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner