Orwell Prize for Political Writing — Complete Winners List
30 years of winners · Orwell Foundation · Since 1994 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Victoria Amelina | Pushkin Press | |
| 2024 | Matthew Longo | W. W. Norton | |
| 2023 | Peter Apps | Oneworld | |
| 2022 | Sally Hayden | Melville House | |
| 2021 | Joshua Yaffa | Tim Duggan Books | |
| 2020 | Kate Clanchy | Picador | |
| 2019 | Patrick Radden Keefe | Doubleday | |
| 2018 | Darren McGarvey | Luath Press | |
| 2017 | John Bew | Riverrun | |
| 2016 | Arkady Ostrovsky | Viking | |
| 2015 | James Meek | Verso | |
| 2014 | Alan Johnson | — | |
| 2013 | A. T. Williams | — | |
| 2012 | Toby Harnden | — | |
| 2011 | Tom Bingham | — | |
| 2010 | Andrea Gillies | — | |
| 2009 | Andrew Brown | — | |
| 2008 | Raja Shehadeh | — | |
| 2007 | Peter Hennessy | — | |
| 2004 | Robert Cooper | — | |
| 2003 | Francis Wheen | — | |
| 2002 | Miranda Carter | — | |
| 2001 | Michael Ignatieff | — | |
| 2000 | Brian Cathcart | — | |
| 1999 | D. M. Thomas | — | |
| 1998 | Patricia Hollis | — | |
| 1997 | Peter Godwin | — | |
| 1996 | Fergal Keane | — | |
| 1995 | Fionnuala O'Connor | — | |
| 1994 | Anatol Lieven | — |