George Orwell Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Girlfriend(s), Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Eric Arthur Blair
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Thursday
BIRTHPLACE
Motihari, India
DIED AT AGE
46 Years 6 Months 26 Days
DEATHDATE
January 21, 1950
DEATHPLACE
London, England, United Kingdom
CAUSE OF DEATH
Tuberculosis
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
CANCER
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
N/A
WEIGHT
N/A
George Orwell Family Members
Parents
FATHER
Richard Walmsley Blair
SISTER(S) NAME
Fame & Address
Education, Net Worth & More
RELIGION
Atheist
COLLEGE
Eton College
More Information
Career of George Orwell
He worked in BBC in September 1943. He became a literary editor at Tribune in November 1943. He had written Animal Farm. He had written an article on "British Cookery". He had co-edited a collection titled British Pamphleteers with Reginald Reynolds.
Some Lesser Known Facts About George Orwell
- Did George Orwell takes alcohol? NA.
- Was George Orwell in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- He served in the police department of Burma. He became fluent in Burmese. He also got his tattoos there.
- He was the first person who had applied the term Cold War to describe the condition of tension between Russia and the US in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb".
- He was injured when he fought from the side of Republican in the Spanish Civil War. He was shot in the throat by a sniper. He also received electroshock treatment at the medical hospital.
- He wanted to join British Army at the time of World War II but was rejected due to his injury in the Spanish Civil War. He worked at the BBC broadcasting for the India department. Later on, he became a war correspondent.

- He once tried black magic on a wax effigy of a school bully. It was a coincidence that the young man broke his leg, developed leukemia and died. He blamed himself for the death of that young man for the rest of life.
- He does not say the first word Mumma or dad that normally a kid says. He said "Beastly" which was his first word and was a hint of being an author in future.
- His harsh experience of the war was the inspiration of his work "Homage to Catalonia".
- He faced financial hardship in the two years between 1928 and 1929. He had also written his experience of that time in "Down And Out In Paris And London."
- He had also worked as a teacher before seriously entering the acting profession.
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