Kate Clanchy’s “moving and powerful” memoir about working as a teacher in the state education system, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, has won the Orwell prize for political writing.
Clanchy, a writer and poet who has been a teacher for 30 years in London, Scotland, Essex and Oxford, beat shortlisted titles including Robert Macfarlane’s Underland and Amelia Gentleman’s The Windrush Betrayal to the £3,000 book award.
