Dystopian Fiction Prize 2024 Winner

A “powerful” love story between a crematorium worker and a man mourning the sister whose body he had cremated has been awarded the annual Orwell Society prize in recognition of excellent dystopian fiction by a young writer.

‘When Fillings Burn’ by Loïs Bolton, a student of Creative and Critical Writing at Liverpool University, was awarded the top prize at an event in London on Saturday May 11 attended by George Orwell’s son Richard Blair.

Runners-up were:

‘Eighteen Tomorrow’ by Hassan Akram
‘Simulation or Damnation’ by Leo Otoiu

2024 Prize Winners (From left with OS Patron Richard Blair centre) Hassan Akram, Georgina Parbrook, Dan Paling, Matthew Taylor, Lucy Gilder, and Loïs Bolton