Born in 1903 in India, a British colony, I heard and witnessed sharp conflicts between colonists and colonized people in my childhood. Unlike most British children, his sympathy tends to be on the side of the miserable Indian people.
As a teenager, Orwell was educated at the famous Eton School. Later, he was sent to Myanmar as a police officer, but he was on the side of the convicts.
In the 1930s, he participated in the Spanish Civil War and was excluded because he belonged to Trotsky faction (Fourth International), but when he returned home, he had to exile in France because he was classified as a leftist.
During World War II, he worked on anti-fascist propaganda at the BBC. In 1950, he died of a lung disease that had plagued him for years, aged only 47.
1903年生于英国殖民地的印度，童年耳闻目睹了殖民者与被殖民者之间尖锐的冲突。与绝大多数英国孩子不同，他的同情倾向悲惨的印度人民一边。
少年时代，奥威尔受教育于著名的伊顿公学。后来被派到缅甸任警察，他却站在了苦役犯的一边。
20世纪30年代，他参加西班牙内战，因属托洛茨基派系（第四国际）而遭排挤，回国后却又因被划入左派，不得不流亡法国。
二战中，他在英国广播公司（BBC）从事反法西斯宣传工作。1950年，死于困扰其数年的肺病，年仅47岁。
扩展资料
文学特点：奥威尔的批评风格是一贯的，始终影响他自己的写作取向，他总是受到一种写作之外的力量的左右，所以写作的形式、审美意趣对他来说都不是一种目的，他也从来不会为写作技巧本身而去追求其完美。哪怕在讨论其他作家的时候，即使有精致艺术的一面，他也会一掠而过，不再去理会。
虽然奥威尔所作的是政治的写作，但他不信任任何意识形态，他的写作依靠的不是这样或那样的政治理论，而是他自己的经验和感觉，这种经验和感觉不是孤独的，而是与他人的生活现实联系在一起。
参考资料来源：百度百科——乔治·奥威尔
