A short biography about George Orwell

George Orwell ⇒Pen name of Eric Blair

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Born in Bengal, INDIA, in 1903

His father's job⇨ CIVIL SERVANT for the BRITISH consulate.

His family moved to England, when he was young

Unable to get a scholarship, Orwell moved back to India and started working as an administrator for the Indian Imperial Police.

He did this job only for a few days, but soon he didn't like it anymore.

In England, he did lots of jobs and then he started writing professionally.

His first novels were: Out in Paris and London

                                   Burmese Days

An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist.

His socialist views began to make substantial in the wake of several worldwide events. He left for Spain where he fought for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists.. He talked about this experience in Homage to Catalonia (1938).

Then he served for the British in World War II as a correspondent and it was after this that he wrote Animal Farm, published in 1945. It is A political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution.

In the 1940s he was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.

In 1949 he published 1984, which soon became a bestseller. He died in 1950.
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