Which British author wrote '1984'?

George Orwell wrote 1984, formally titled Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian novel about life under an oppressive totalitarian regime.

Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, completed the novel after years of illness and political reflection. It was published in the United Kingdom on 8 June 1949 and became his final completed book. The story follows Winston Smith, a government worker in Oceania who secretly questions the Party’s control over history, language and private thought.

The novel introduced ideas and expressions that became part of everyday political vocabulary, including Big Brother, thoughtcrime, Newspeak and doublethink. Its themes include mass surveillance, censorship, propaganda and the manipulation of truth.

Arthur C. Clarke and H.G. Wells were major science-fiction authors, while Aldous Huxley wrote the dystopian classic Brave New World. Huxley’s novel is sometimes confused with 1984 because both examine societies that control individuals, but Orwell wrote 1984.