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20 May 2010

Peter Hitchens wins Orwell Prize

The veteran political journalist is commended for his foreign correspondence.

By Daniel Trilling

The columnist and reporter Peter Hitchens has been awarded this year’s Orwell Prize for journalism. Hitchens won the prize for his foreign correspondence, published in the Mail on Sunday, of which the Orwell judges said:

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