George Orwell was born in Motihari, British India, soon before moving to England with his family in 1904. Here he attends the most reputable secondary educational institution in England, Eton, where his first writing ambitions come about. However, the academic results are disappointing to his peers.

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In 1922 he moves to Burma to serve as an Imperial Police Sergeant, where the situation between Burmese natives and the British colonisers is often turbulent and at best tense. This period was marked by numerous strike movements on behalf of Burmese nationalists which were often violently suppressed by the British imperialists.

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In 1927 he returns to England on leave, partly due to illness, and resigns with the intention of becoming a writer.  His experiences during his service would turn him against British Imperialism, and be the basis of the 1934 novel Burmese Days.

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On returning to Europe he spends time experiencing life among the lowest classes of society, notably in London and Paris. These mostly negative experiences would be recorded and published in journalistic style in the 1933 Down and Out in Paris and London. Further experiences of this kind in the north of England recorded a few years later would be published in the conclusively socialist The Road to Wigan Pier of 1937.

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Orwell's ideals would be measured by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. By the end of the year he had travelled to Spain to fight against Fascism and would be injured by a sniper bullet in the trenches. He would escape in mid 1937 and complete the fascinating Homage to Catalonia  the following year.

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The outbreak of WW2 would greatly disrupt one of Orwell's most well known novels; The Animal Farm, which brought him great success in furthering his writing career on its release in 1945. His most famous work, Nineteen-Eighty Four, was published in 1949 and was translated into over 50 languages.

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Orwell's final months were marked by illness which rapidly led to death in London's University College Hospital. Still today he his remembered for his groundbreaking work and seen by many as having a prophetic vision of the future of totalitarianism.

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