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The Orwell Prize 2012 is now open for submissions, with Book Prize judges author Miranda Carter and journalist Sameer Rahim confirmed.
Carter won the Orwell Prize for Books 2002 for Anthony Blunt: His Lives (Pan Macmillan); Rahim is the assistant books editor on the Telegraph, and a third judge will be announced shortly.
In the Blog category, the judges are journalist Suzanne Moore, and blogger Hopi Sen, shortlisted for the prize in 2010.
Judging the Journalism Prize will be Brian Cathcart, winner of the Orwell Prize for Books 2000, former deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday, professor of journalism at Kingston University and a founder of the Hacked Off campaign, as well Ian Hargreaves, author, former director of BBC News and Current Affairs as well as former editor of the Independent and the New Statesman, and professor of digital economy at Cardiff University.
The winner in each category wins £3,000 and a plaque. The prizes aim to reward political writing which comes closest to Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art".
Entries will close on 18th January 2012, with the longlists to be announced on 28th March 2012, followed by the shortlists on 25th April. The winners will be announced on 23rd May at a ceremony at Church House, London.
Director of the prize Jean Seaton said: "The riots of the summer meant something; but what? . . . This year's Orwell Prize launches on how the meaning of the riots is wrestled with, by writers of all kinds, in the long aftermath."