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The Orwell Prize 2016
The 2016 Orwell Prize went to The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky. 6 books made the shortlist and 12 the longlist.
Winner
- The Invention of Russiasource (opens in a new tab)
Shortlist
- Circling the Squaresource (opens in a new tab)
- Other People’s Moneysource (opens in a new tab)
- The New Threat from Islamic Militancysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Tears of the Rajassource (opens in a new tab)
- The Unravellingsource (opens in a new tab)
Longlist
- How the French Thinksource (opens in a new tab)
- More Humansource (opens in a new tab)
- Promised You a Miraclesource (opens in a new tab)
- The House by the Lakesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Silo Effectsource (opens in a new tab)
- Unfinished Businesssource (opens in a new tab)
About the The Orwell Prize
Book prizes only: the combined Book Prize (category Book) to 2018, then the Political Writing and Political Fiction book prizes from 2019; journalism, blog and special prizes are out of scope. Year is the prize year the Foundation uses (winner announced in June). Membership and levels come from the shortlist, finalist and longlist blocks on each year's winner page; the site's 'finalists' are recorded as Shortlist. Longlists are published for 2008-2021 only, and 2006-2007 show a shortlist only. Dozens of older book pages carry a stray '2010 Book prize long list' header, so those rows cite the year's winner page, which lists them, instead of the book page. Duplicate pages for the same book (Frontline 2006; Whatever It Takes and Enough is Enough 2011) count once. Translators are not credited on the source pages.
Organization: The Orwell Foundation. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 29 shared books
- Goodreads Choice Awards 21 shared books
- Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 19 shared books
- Booker Prize 18 shared books
- British Book Awards 17 shared books