Author george orwell biography for kids

Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950), better known by the pen nameGeorge Orwell, was a British author best known for his allegoricalpoliticalnovels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Biography Orwell was born in Bengal, British India, where his father worked for the Opium Department of the Civil Service.

Author george orwell biography for kids

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His father brought him to England at the age of one; he did not see his father again until 1907 when his father visited England for three months before leaving again until 1912. Young Orwell was a hardworking student, and won scholarships first to St.

Cyprian's School[?] (which he described in his essay "Such, Such Were The Joys") and then Eton, which he attended from 1917 to 1921. He joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in 1922, but returned to England and resigned in 1928 having grown to hate imperialism (as can be seen in his first novel Burmese Days[?], published in 1934).

Orwell then lived for several years in poverty,