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George Orwell
Known best for his powerful anti-utopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), English author George Orwell came to be regarded as a prophetic voice in 20th-century literature.
George Orwell died from tuberculosis on January 21, 1950, at the age of 46. He had been struggling with the illness for several years, frequently working between bouts of hospitalization before his death in a London hospital.12