Orwell's Roses
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction | 2021 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Rebecca Solnit takes as her starting point the roses George Orwell planted in his Hertfordshire garden in 1936 to explore how beauty, pleasure, and nature sustained political resistance in his life and work. Weaving between Stalin's rose industry, a Colombian flower farm, and the essays Orwell wrote in wartime, Solnit meditates on the politics of beauty. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award.
About the Author
Rebecca Solnit is an American writer, historian, and activist, the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and urban history, popular power, ecology, and art. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, she was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her MA in journalism from UC Berkeley. Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) (2018) won the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. Read more →
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