Four UA authors longlisted for The Orwell Prize

Four writers represented by United Agents and AP Watt at United Agents have been longlisted for the prestigious Orwell Prize 2013. Ben Goldacre for BAD PHARMA and Richard Holloway for LEAVING ALEXANDRIA have been nominated for the book prize and James Meek and Claire Sambrook have been nominated for the journalism prize.

The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. Every year, prizes are awarded to the work – for the book and for the journalism – which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.


Director of the Prize, Jean Seaton, said:

“Anybody reading newspapers this last year would think that British journalism was in a parlous state, but the entries for the Orwell Prize tell a different story. The entries were a stunning display of professional investigative brilliance. All of the judges were inspired by just how much good journalism is going on in Britain. This year’s longlisted books show just how carefully they have to be crafted. The range of writing, the passion of the research and the variety of manners in this marvellous set of books show a confident important writing culture. Go out and read them.”

The winners of The Orwell Prize 2013 will be announced on 15 May 2013. You can see the full longlist here.