Death of George Orwell
Monday, 15 February 2010
Written by Islamstory
1st of Rabi' Al-Awwal 1387 AH/ June 8th, 1967 AD: George Orwell, a British novelist, essayist, and critic, died. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, the author of Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). He was born in India and educated in England, and as a young man he spent seven years in Burma working for the Indian Imperial Police. He returned to Europe and in 1933 published his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, a first-hand account of his self-imposed poverty.
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