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George Orwell . Orwell wrote literary criticism , poetry , fiction , and polemical journalism . His non-fiction works , including The Road to Wigan Pier ( 1937 ) , documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England , and Homage to Catalonia ( 1938 ) , an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War , are widely acclaimed , as are his essays on politics , literature , language , and culture . Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell .