Share this

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google plus
• Linkedin
• Mail this event
• Print this event

Young author Tea Obreht has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, The Tiger's Wife.

---

---

Aged just 25 years old, Tea Obreht is the youngest author to have won the award for the book the prize's judges praised as 'exceptional'.

'Obreht's powers of observation and her understanding of the world are remarkable,' said chair of the judges, Bettany Hughes.

'By skilfully spinning a series of magical tales, she has managed to bring the tragedy of chronic Balkan conflict thumping into our front rooms with a bittersweet vivacity.

'Obreht celebrates storytelling and she helps us to remember that it is the stories that we tell about ourselves, and about others, that can make us who we are and the world what it is' she added.

Obreht's novel competed against nominees Kathleen Winter with Annabel, Emma Donoghue with Room, Aminatta Forna with The Memory of Love, Emma Henderson with Grace Williams Says it Loud and Nicole Krauss with Great House for the £30,000 annual prize.

The prize is open to books written in English by women and Obreht, Grace Williams and Emma Henderson were nominated for their debut novels.

Serbian-American author Obreht emigrated to the United States in 1997 and her novel tells the tale of a young doctor who goes on a journey in southeastern Europe, inspired by her grandfather's stories.

---

---