Acclaimed author and journalist Gary Younge opens The Orwell Festival 2023 with a powerful, wide-ranging lecture reflecting on his ground-breaking career and the people who made it possible.

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at the Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. His book Another Day in the Death of America was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books in 2018 and in 2021 he was also shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism for bringing ‘the eloquence of an expert journalist and the depth of an academic’ to his reporting on the role of racism and inequality in the pandemic.

Based in Bloomsbury, London, an area rich with Orwellian associations, The Orwell Festival is The Orwell Foundation's annual celebration of the most exciting, important and imaginative writing and reporting, featuring Orwell Prize finalists and special guests from across literature, journalism and politics.

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