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The £3,000 Orwell Book Prize for political writing has been awarded to A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by AT Williams, published by Jonathan Cape.
A special Orwell Prize was given to the late Marie Colvin’s On the Front Line (HarperPress).
A Very British Killing follows events in Basra in 2003. The judges, made up of Mikita Lalwani, Arifa Akbar and Baroness Joan Bakewell said: “The greatest achievement of this this incendiary, eloquent and angry book is that is humanises Mousa beyond the iconic andinfamous figure he has become in his death. It was written in the spirit of Orwell’s journalism.”
A special prize was awarded to Colvin, who was killed in Syria in February last year. Sean Ryan from the Sunday Times collected a trophy on her behalf at the ceremony held last night (15th May).
The journalism prize was split between two journalists. Tom Bergin of Reuters was given the award for his work on corporations avoiding tax, and Andrew Norfolk from the Times was rewarded for his long-running investigation into the sexual abuse of girls at care homes in Rochdale and beyond.