George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton for four years. Orwell was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left the position after five years and then moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books, Burmese Days and Down and Out In Paris. Orwell then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, Orwell served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. He started writing for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune. Soon after he published the world-famous… book, Animal Farm, which became a huge success for Orwell. It was then towards the end of his life when Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell died on January 23, 1950 in London.
Tea Obreht est nee a Belgrade en 1985. Apres avoir vecu a Chypre et en egypte, elle reside aux etats-Unis depuis l age de douze ans. Ses textes ont ete publies par le New Yorker et The Atlantic et figurent dans l anthologie des Best American Short Stories. La Femme du tigre vient de recevoir le Prix Orange prize.