Defining moment

Writing 1984

While sick with tuberculosis Orwell completed his final novel 1984, describing a dystopian future dominated by totalitarian superpowers. He wrote much of these amendments and produced the final manuscript while living on the island of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. As his condition deteriorated he moved to University College Hospital, London, where he died on 21 January 1950.

1946-1950