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7. Juni 2024 · Richard Blair turned 80 in May. A retired businessman, he has spent the past few decades minding the legacy of his father, Eric Arthur Blair - known to readers the world over as George Orwell....
10. Juni 2024 · Now, almost 90 years after the writer of Homage to Catalonia nearly lost his life in the 1936-1939 war, his son Richard Blair has finally realised his father’s wish to make it to Huesca –...
8. Juni 2024 · Richard Blair at our 2017 live reading. In 2017, we marked our arrival at University College London, home of the Orwell Archive, by staging the UK’s first live reading of the entire novel at Senate House, the building which inspired the ‘The Ministry of Truth’.
Vor 2 Tagen · His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was an Anglican clergyman. Orwell's father was Richard Walmesley Blair, who worked as a Sub-Deputy Opium Agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service, overseeing the production and storage of opium for sale to China.
6. Juni 2024 · According to Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, the writer thought his novel would “either be a best seller or the world [would] ignore it. He wasn’t quite sure which of the two it would be.” But soon...
16. Juni 2024 · Richard Blair, the great novelist’s son and Patron of the Orwell Society, will do us the honour of chairing this conversation featuring Les Wilson, author of Orwell’s Island: George, Jura and 1984, and Gary Younge, recipient of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism.
8. Juni 2024 · Richard Blair turned 80 in May. A retired businessman, he has spent the past few decades minding the legacy of his father, Eric Arthur Blair - known to readers the world over as George...
