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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.
After leaving the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1943, George Orwell became the literary editor of the Tribune. The Tribune was a left-wing socialist newspaper associated with the British Labour Party leader Aneurin Bevan. During this period, Orwell was a prolific journalist, contributing numerous articles, reviews, and serious literary criticism to the publication.12