George Orwell remains an iconic figure today even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people s lives and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden s revelations. The word -Orwellian- is constantly in the media used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean -displaying outspoken intellectual honesty-. Interest in Orwell s life and writings globally continues...

George Orwell remains an iconic figure today even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people s lives and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden s revelations. The word -Orwellian- is constantly in the media used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean -displaying outspoken intellectual honesty-. Interest in Orwell s life and writings globally continues...