Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht ( born Tea Barjaktarević; born September 30, 1985 in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia) is an American writer.

Life

Obreht lived until the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars in 1992 with her ​​mother and the parents of the mother in Belgrade. The family went first to Cyprus and then to Cairo in Egypt, from where her grandparents in 1997 went back to Belgrade. Obreht moved with her mother to the United States to Atlanta in Georgia and then later to Palo Alto in California.

Obrehts grandfather took her in 2006 on his death bed, the promise to publish their future works under his name. She left the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts and in 2009 reached the level of MFA in the discipline fiction under the program for Creative Writing at Cornell University.

Obreht currently lives (2011) in Ithaca, New York. Their tales and short stories appeared in recent years, among others in The Atlantic (short story The Laugh August 2009), The New Yorker ( narrative Blue Water Djinn on August 2, 2010), Harper 's Magazine (short story Twilight of the Vampires: Hunting the Real Life Undead 2010), The New York Times and The Guardian.

Awards and prizes

  • 2011: Orange Prize for Fiction, a British award for authors for The Tiger 's Wife
  • , 2011. Finalist at the U.S. National Book Award competition in the category of fiction of the National Book Foundation, New York City for The Tiger 's Wife

Publications

  • The Tiger's Wife, Random House, New York 2011 ISBN 978-0-385-34383-1. The Tiger Woman, German by Bettina Abarbanell: Rowohlt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87134-712-2.
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