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George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) was a major English writer and social critic known for works like Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. His writing combined political insight, strong moral perspective, and storytelling, making him widely influential. Born in India in 1903, he was educated in England and later served in Burma as a police officer, which inspired his early novel Burmese Days. He experienced poverty, worked various jobs, and wrote about social inequality in works like Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier. Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War, an experience he documented in Homage to Catalonia. Despite ongoing health issues, he continued writing essays and working in journalism during World War II. His major breakthrough came with Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which established him as a global literary figure. His works explore power, totalitarianism, and truth. Orwell died in London in 1950, but his writing remains highly relevant for its honesty, political insight, and moral clarity.