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His real name was Eric Arthur Blair (1903–50), but, writing as George Orwell, this English former colonial policeman got many things right about the society he was willing to predict in books such Animal Farm and especially 1984. In these days of omnipresent CCTV and text messages that read like Newspeak, too often we are living his Orwellian nightmare.