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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 World War II, after being rejected for military service, George Orwell worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), where he headed the organization's Indian service. He remained in this role until 1943, at which point he left to become the literary editor of the Tribune, a left-wing socialist newspaper.12