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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.
During his service in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell rose to the rank of second lieutenant while serving in the Republican militia, specifically within the Workersâ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).12