George Orwell

North Macedonia Goes Full 1984: Appoints Language Proofreaders In Institutions

North Macedonia will appoint language proofreaders in official institutions and state bodies to check all materials coming out of them for correct use of the Macedonian language.

This is done by virtue of the Law on the Use of the Macedonian Language, adopted on Friday by the Parliament and signed by President Stevo Pendarovski on Tuesday.

Bulgarian Author Georgi Gospodinov Won the "Booker" Prize for "Time Shelter”

The novel "Time Shelter" by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov won the most prestigious international award given for a specific work - "Booker". The prize was awarded at a ceremony in the British capital, London.

Gospodinov became the first Bulgarian writer with this award. The English translation was made by Angela Rodel.

New Democracies ‘Need Formative Crises to Build Immunity’

This is the latest in a series of articles on the legacy of the fall of the Iron Curtain 30 years ago. See more.

Rather than unfolding like George Orwell's classic fable, he said the anti-totalitarian revolution ingrained the rule of law, free elections, free media, the partition of power and constitutional liberties in Central and Eastern Europe.

Language and political nonsense

In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell argued that the use of simple language - free of pretension, foreign words and vagueness - would improve the level of political thought. Since then, almost anyone writing on the relationship between language and politics has referred to the 1946 essay, whether agreeing or disagreeing with it.

1984 | Athens | September 14

The Chytirio Theater in the downtown Athens district of Kerameikos is hosting a free screening of Michael Radford's "1984," based on George Orwell's classic novel about a dystopian future under an oppressive regime and released in the same year.

Reinstituting death penalty but for whom?

Turkey's "high society" of beauty parlor blondes was shocked over reports in social media that a 19-year-old female university student was raped in the backyard of a Ba?dad Caddesi apartment by a "married man with two kids." Would it make any difference if the despicable crime was committed somewhere else and not at Ba?dad Caddesi of Istanbul?

A call to Hürriyet readers

Our profession has more than one definition. Every journalist, depending on where they stand and depending on their viewpoint, adopts one of these definitions. What suits my own journalism perspective is George Orwell?s definition: ?Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.?

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