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He was born in eastern India.
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He decided to resign from the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in order to become a writer
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He moved to Paris and worked in menial jobs.
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Down and Out in Paris and London was his first book in which he described his experiences in Paris.
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Burmese Days
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He travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists
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The Road to Wigan Pier, a book that he wrote because he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in northern England.
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He worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune.
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It's a political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution.
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'Set in an imaginary totalitarian future, the book made a deep impression.
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Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis.
