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April 2020

Women's prize at 25: what it is like to win by Zadie Smith, Naomi Alderman and more

Winning authors explain how the award changed their lives and share their favourite books by women

August 2019

Téa Obreht: ‘In America, we make progress, then revert in horrific ways'

At 25, she won the Orange prize with her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife. In her long awaited follow-up, she tackles the history of the American west

Inland by Téa Obreht review – the wild west just got wilder

This exquisite frontier tale from the author of The Tiger’s Wife is a timely exploration of the darkness beneath the American dream

Book of the day
Inland by Téa Obreht review – a spectacular reinvention of the western
This follow-up to the award-winning The Tiger’s Wife is an otherworldly vision of 19th-century Arizona

April 2017

The age of anxiety: what does Granta’s best young authors list say about America?

The US is in crisis - what about its literature? Michelle Dean reports on the 2017 Granta list of writers under 40, which is as diverse as the country itself

November 2015

Who is your Bailey of Baileys winner?

A jury of former judges is currently deciding which novel deserves to take the laurels as the last decade’s finest novel by a woman. Who gets your vote?

October 2013

Books blog
Reading literary fiction improves empathy, study finds
New research shows works by writers such as Charles Dickens and Téa Obreht sharpen our ability to understand others' emotions – more than thrillers or romance novels, writes Liz Bury

December 2011

2011 in review
Books for giving: fiction
Justine Jordan finds much to admire in the novels published this year

June 2011

My hero
Stefan Obreht by Téa Obreht

The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: Feminism in literature

Téa Obreht: 'I don't feel I've earned the Orange prize'

Books blog
Does Téa Obreht's Orange prize signal a return to fabulism?

Justine Jordan

The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: Téa Obreht and David Bezmozgis

March 2011

Debut fiction: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht; When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman; Today by David Miller – reviews

From Téa Obreht's poignant Balkan tale to Sarah Winman's talking rabbit, Mary Fitzgerald rounds up the latest debut fiction

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review
Sue Arnold's audiobook choice: Aravind Adiga, Téa Obreht and Harper Lee

Kapka Kassabova on a novel that mythologises Yugoslavia's history

August 2010

Summer short story special
The Sentry by Téa Obreht
Téa Obreht: Born in 1985 in Yugoslavia, Obreht's first novel The Tiger's Wife, was extracted by the New Yorker, and she was selected as one of the magazine's 20 writers under 40 to watch. She now lives in New York