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George Orwell

1903 - 1950

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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism. Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Orwell is the 37th most popular writer (up from 56th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from India and the most popular Indian Writer.

George Orwell is most famous for his dystopian novel 1984.

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Among writers, George Orwell ranks 37 out of 7,302. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez, Giovanni Boccaccio, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, Khalil Gibran, and Anne Frank. After him are Charles Dickens, Matsuo Bashō, Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, and Horace.

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Among people born in 1903, George Orwell ranks 1. After him are Olav V of Norway, John von Neumann, Konrad Lorenz, Aram Khachaturian, Georges Simenon, Theodor W. Adorno, George Beadle, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, C. F. Powell, Adolf Butenandt, and Habib Bourguiba. Among people deceased in 1950, George Orwell ranks 1. After him are Vallabhbhai Patel, George Bernard Shaw, Gustaf V of Sweden, Johannes V. Jensen, Joseph Schumpeter, Norman Haworth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and Heinrich Mann.

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In India

Among people born in India, George Orwell ranks 5 out of 1,861. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Indira Gandhi (1917), Narendra Modi (1950), and Mumtaz Mahal (1593). After him are Ashoka (-304), Rajneesh (1931), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Kālidāsa (400), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), and Ramakrishna (1836).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, George Orwell ranks 1. After him are Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Kālidāsa (400), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Valmiki (-80), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Salman Rushdie (1947), Ghalib (1797), Jim Corbett (1875), Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811).

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