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
grandma writing belgrade
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
egypt cyprus remember
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
egypt my-family
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
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.
writing inspire
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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.
yugoslavia grandfather term
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
attachment the-end-of-the-day make-or-break
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
heart fists sponges
Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?
heart body bones
Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.
long want ends
In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.
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.
superstitions ritual
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
land sweat waiting
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.