Tea Obreht
Tea Obreht
Téa Obrehtis an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel...
NationalitySerbian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 September 1985
CountrySerbia
encouragement taken thinking
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
book writing childhood
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
writing focus details
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
writing inspire
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
supportive agents faculty
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
egypt my-family
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
should knows
death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is
superstitions entitled
We're all entitled to our superstitions.
doctors giving living-once
The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.
mother pain memories
My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.
silence secret matter
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
memories grandfather stones
In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
grandfather my-grandfather
My grandfather and I were very close.
happens knows
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.