The Winner
Orwell is a hero and a model whom we vainly strive to imitate. To be associated with his name, as an Orwell Prize winner, is not just an honour but also a call to action.
Timothy Garton Ash, Journalism Winner, 2006
To see a complete list of winners, click here.
Johann Hari – The Independent
Columnist and reporter,
The Independent
For five articles.
Johann Hari has been a twice-weekly columnist for The Independent since January 2003, and a Contributing Editor to Attitude (Britain's main gay magazine). Since 2005 he has also written a weekly 'City Lives' column for the Evening Standard, London's nightly newspaper.
His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Le Monde, El Mundo, The Guardian, The Melbourne Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, South Africa's Star, The Irish Times, Amnesty International's journals and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines. He has also written a play, Going Down in History (2002), and a book, God Save the Queen? (2003).