Twelfth lunar month the fourth day) (Year of the OX, January 21, 1950, the British writer George Orwell died.


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Orwell was born in Bangladesh, formerly known as Eric - Arthur - Blair, educated at Eton College, a few years as police in Myanmar. He spent in France and the United Kingdom, after a period of wandering life began seriously writing, this experience is recorded in the 1933 Paris London abjection mind ". Orwell unorthodox socialist beliefs dominate his many later works, including leading Wigan Pier Road "(1937) and wounded in the Spanish Civil War, he wrote" A Tribute to Catalonia Bologna (1938), and his last novel, "1984", this work expressed his future prospects, and will be subject to the point of view of the anti-utopianism of totalitarian rule. Perhaps his most popular work is an allegory of the novel "Animal Farm" (1945), the book was later made into a cartoon.