Orwell, George

has biography | a une biographie: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name 'George Orwell'.

Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bengal in 1903 to Richard Walmesley Blair, an Indian Civil Service agent, and Ida Mabel Blair. Orwell's great-great-grandfather, Charles Blair, was an absentee slave-owner of two estates in Jamaica.

Orwell had a complex relationship to the British Empire and class society in twentieth century Britain. From 1922 to 1927, he served as a police officer with the Imperial Indian Police in colonial Burma. Orwell would later recount his colonial experiences in several writings, including the novel Burmese Days (1934) and the essays 'A Hanging' (1931) and 'Shooting an Elephant' (1936).
was born | est né: 25 June 1903
died in | est mort par: 21 January 1950
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; British Raj
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; National Portrait Gallery; The Orwell Foundation; Legacies of British Slavery - Charles Blair senior; Douglas Kerr, Orwell and Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)

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