American war correspondent Marie Colvin has been nominated for this year's Orwell Prize for her book "On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin".

American war correspondent Marie Colvin died last February in a rocket attack during the siege of Homs in Syria. Her book "On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin" has won her a nomination for this year's Orwell Prize, a British literary award for political writing. The announcement was made Thursday.

"On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin" was published in April last year. The book ends with her final written dispatch from Homs. Prize director Jean Seaton said the judges started from Orwell's injunction: "My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice".

"That is what the judges hunted for and found, writing that was measured and calm not simply angry," Seaton said in a statement.

The others shortlisted were Carmen Bugan with "Burying the Typewriter" about growing up in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania, the former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway with "Leaving Alexandria", Pankaj Mishra with "From the Ruins of the Empire", and British law professor A.T. Williams with "A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa".

Six journalists were shortlisted from 155 nominations for the year's journalism prize.

These were Jamil Anderlini from the Financial Times, Tom Bergin from Reuters, Ian Cobain of the Guardian, Andrew Norfolk from The Times, and Christina Patterson and Kim Sengupta from The Independent.