Journalists from the Guardian and the Observer have been honoured in the 2023 Orwell Prizes, winning in three of the five award categories for its reporting.
Announced last night (22 June), the Orwell Prizes are the UK’s ‘most prestigious’ for political writing, awarding work that comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.
The Observer’s Mark Townsend and Shanti Das jointly won the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils with investigations into migration and social care. Mark was recognised for his pieces uncovering the kidnapping of child asylum seekers from a Home Office hotel and the whistleblowers they ignored, while Shanti won for her work looking at the exploitation of migrant workers in the UK care system; from illegal recruitment fees to debt bondage.
