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Coolie Woman

by Gaiutra Bahadur

Publication: First published 2013
ISBN: 9780226043388

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Prize history

Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2014

Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.

Shortlist

Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2014 shortlist

This Boy

Alan Johnson

Winner
Margaret Thatcher

Charles Moore
The British Dream

David Goodhart
The Tragedy of Liberation

Frank Dikötter
The World’s Most Dangerous Place

James Fergusson

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United States · 2010s

A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine
A Song for a New Day

Sarah Pinsker
Afropessimism

Frank B. Wilderson III
Burn the Place

Iliana Regan
Burnt Sugar

Avni Doshi
Cantoras

Carolina De Robertis

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