Andrić, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, Isak Dinesen, Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, and the children's writer Roald Dahl. In October 2011, Obreht was a special guest at a charity lunch organized by Lifeline Humanitarian Organization in New York under the patronage of Katherine, Crown Princess of Yugoslavia, to aid orphaned children in Serbia. Obreht participated by auctioning off a private lecture by her at a book club. Obreht's latest novel, Inland, was released in August 2019. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize. Books The Tiger's Wife (2010) The Tiger's Wife was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2010. It is a novel set in an unnamed Balkan country, in the present and half a century ago, and features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her. These concern a "deathless man" who meets him several times in different places and never grows old, and a deaf-mute girl from his childhood village who befriends a tiger that escaped from a zoo. It was largely written while she was at Cornell, and excerpted in The New Yorker in June 2009. Asked to summarize it by a university journalist, Obreht replied, "It's a family saga that takes place in a fictionalized province of the Balkans. It's about a female narrator and her relationship to her grandfather, who's a doctor. It's a saga about doctors and their relationships to death throughout all these wars in the Balkans." The Tiger's Wife won the British Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 (for 2010 publications). Obreht was the youngest winner of the annual prize (established 1996), which recognizes "excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world". Late in 2011 she was a finalist for that year's U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Inland (2019) Inland was published on August 13, 2019 by Random House. The novel is set in the Arizona Territory in the 1800s. Bibliography Novels Short stories "The Laugh", The Atlantic, Fiction Issue (August 2009) "The Sentry", The Guardian, Summer Short Story Special (Summer 2010) "Blue Water Djinn", The New Yorker (August 2, 2010) "Blue Water Djinn", 20 Under 40: Stories from the New Yorker, edited by Deborah Treisman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, pp. 285–305 "Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure", Zoetrope: All-Story (Spring 2017) Essays and reporting "Twilight of The Vampires: Hunting the Real-Life Undead", Harper's Magazine (November 2010) "American Idol: Reason to Believe", Vogue