Finalists have been unveiled for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing (nonfiction), both of which aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics as well as meet Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art." The winners will be named June 25. Finalists for all four Orwell Prize categories are available here. The book finalists are:
Political Writing
The Escape from Kabul by Karen Bartlett
Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov
Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple
For the Sun After Long Nights by Nilo Tabrizy & Fatemeh Jamalpour
Three Years on Fire by Andrey Kurkov
The Wall Dancers by Yi-Ling Liu
The Elements of Power by Nicolas Niarchos
Stalin's Apostles by Antonia Senior
Political Fiction
Uprising by Tahmima Anam
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The Comfort of Distant Stars by I.O. Echeruo
Transcription by Ben Lerner
This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn
John of John by Douglas Stuart
A Private Man by Stephanie Sy-Quia