Animal Farm won an award.
 Four publishers refused to publish Animal Farm, yet one had initially accepted the work but declined it after consulting the Ministry of Information
 Orwell let Andr Deutsch, who was working for Nicholson & Watson in 1944, read the typescript, and Deutsch was convinced that Nicholson & Watson would want to publish it; however, they did not, and "lectured Orwell on what they perceived to be errors in Animal Farm"

