George Orwell Wikipedia. English author and journalist Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),[1] better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.[2][3] Life Early years Blair family home at Shiplake, Oxfordshire Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, British India.[7] His great-grandfather, Charles Blair, was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of the Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of plantations in Jamaica.[8] His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was a clergyman.[9] Although the gentility passed down the generations, the prosperity did not; Eric Blair described his family as "lower-upper-middle class".[10] In 1904 Ida Blair settled with her children at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
Policing in Burma Statue. Wikipedia french version. Photographie d'Orwell sur sa carte d'adhérent du Syndicat national des journalistes (National Union of Journalists) en 1943.
Œuvres principales George Orwell [dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ ˈɔːwel][a], nom de plume d’Eric Arthur Blair, né le 25 juin 1903 à Motihari (Inde) pendant la période du Raj britannique et mort le 21 janvier 1950 à Londres, est un écrivain, essayiste et journaliste britannique. Son œuvre porte la marque de ses engagements, qui trouvent eux-mêmes pour une large part leur source dans l'expérience personnelle de l'auteur : contre l'impérialisme britannique, après son engagement de jeunesse comme représentant des forces de l'ordre colonial en Birmanie ; pour la justice sociale et le socialisme libertaire[1],[2], après avoir observé et partagé les conditions d'existence des classes laborieuses à Londres et à Paris ; contre les totalitarismes nazi et stalinien, après sa participation à la guerre d'Espagne.
Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Orwell en Espagne[modifier | modifier le code] George Orwell Biography. Eric Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903.
Educated in England at Eton, he moved to Burma in 1922 where he joined the Indian Imperial Police for five years. He eventually resigned because of his increasing disillusionment with British imperialism. After a period doing a variety of jobs in France he returned to England where opened a village shop. Using the pseudonym, George Orwell, he began writing articles for magazines. His first book, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) described his experiences as a struggling writer.
In 1936 Orwell was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to produce a documentary account of unemployment in the north of England for his Left Book Club. Orwell, a committed socialist, went to Spain in December 1936 to report on the Spanish Civil War. In January 1937 Orwell, given the rank of corporal, was sent to join the offensive at Aragón. Orwell returned to Huesca on 12th May. Orwell published Coming up for Air in 1939. Complete Works. Eric Blair was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, in the then British colony of India, where his father, Richard, worked for the Opium Department of the Civil Service.
His mother, Ida, brought him to England at the age of one. He did not see his father again until 1907, when Richard visited England for three months before leaving again until 1912. Eric had an older sister named Marjorie and a younger sister named Avril. With his characteristic humour, he would later describe his family's background as "lower-upper-middle class. " Education At the age of five, Blair was sent to a small Anglican parish school in Henley, which his sister had attended before him. After a term at Wellington, Eric moved to Eton, where he was a King's Scholar from 1917 to 1921. Burma and afterwards After finishing his studies at Eton, having no prospect of gaining a university scholarship and his family's means being insufficient to pay his tuition, Eric joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.