Biography

" If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."

                                                                                                   - George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair was born in Bengal in India, on June 25, 1903, but he became famous by the name of George Orwell, it was a pseudonymous.

He was a writer and journalist, and his famous work was Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

About his family, his father was a British civil servant, and George spent his first days of life in India because his father was stationed there. George’s mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England about a year after his birth and settled in Henley-on-Thames. His father stayed behind in India and rarely visited.

The first word that he said was "beastly", not a normal first word for a child, special that this word was his first. He had many problems when he was a child, like bronchitis.

  He started to write poems with four years old, and with eleven years old he wrote a poem that was published in a journal, and he was becoming famous.Orwell is also known for his insights about the political implications of the use of language.

  Animal Farm was his famous novel and an anti-Soviet satire in a pastoral setting featuring two pigs as its     protagonists. They were based to represent Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky. It brought Orwell great acclaim and money. Four years later, Orwell published another work, Nineteen Eighty-Four. This work also gave him acclaim but unfortunately, he could not enjoy much, he was in his later battle against tuberculosis.

   OnJanuary 21 of 1950, Eric Blair died, in a Hospital in London with only 46 years; he was married with Eileen O'Shaughnessy until she passed away in 1945. In 1944 they adopted a son and named him Richard Horatio Blair. And in 1950 he proposed to Sonia Brownell, but he stayed married only a few days since he died.