Who wrote the dystopian novel '1984'?

George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel '1984'.

Published in 1949, '1984' follows Winston Smith, a government employee living under the control of the Party and its leader, Big Brother. The novel imagines a society where surveillance, propaganda, censorship, and enforced loyalty shape everyday life.

Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English writer whose political experiences strongly influenced his fiction. '1984' was his final completed book and followed 'Animal Farm', another famous work criticizing authoritarian power. The novel introduced terms such as Newspeak, thoughtcrime, and doublethink into popular culture.

A common mix-up is confusing Orwell with Aldous Huxley, who wrote 'Brave New World', another major dystopian novel. Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote the earlier dystopian novel 'We', while Ray Bradbury authored 'Fahrenheit 451'. The title is often written as '1984', though the original title is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.