15:21 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nProminent writer Christopher Hitchens and former law lord Tom Bingham have made the shortlist for the prestigious Orwell Prize for political writing.<\/p>\n
Hitchens is recognised for his memoirs Hitch-22, while Bingham makes the grade for The Rule of Law.<\/p>\n
A shortlist of six was whittled down from 213 books by this year’s judging panel, which included Radio 4’s James Naughtie.<\/p>\n
The winner, who will collect \u00a33,000, will be announced on 17 May.<\/p>\n
The other shortlisted authors include Oliver Bullough for Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, about Russia’s role in the history of conflict in the Caucasu and Helen Dunmore’s novel The Betrayal, a sequel to The Siege about the siege of Leningrad.<\/p>\n
Afsaneh Moqadam’s Death to the Dictator! about the political state in Iran and DR Thorpe’s Supermac: The life of Harold MacMillan are also in the running.<\/p>\n
Orwell Prize director Jean Seaton, said: “There is a recurrent theme in this year’s books, and it is very Orwellian: fear.”<\/p>\n
Prizes will also be given for best blog and best journalism.<\/p>\n
The awards are given for the works which come closest to George Orwell’s ambition “to make political writing into an art.”.<\/p>\n
The prize was founded by the late Professor Sir Bernard Crick in 1993.<\/p>\n
Previous winners include Fergal Keane’s Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey in 1996.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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