George Orwell is a person.
George Orwell . Orwell wrote literary criticism , poetry , fiction , and polemical journalism . He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) . In 2008 , The Times ranked him second on a list of `` The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 '' .