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American writer (born 1985)

Téa Obreht (born Tea Bajraktarević; 30 Sep 1985) is an American novelist.^[1][2][3] She won the Orange Passion for Fiction in 2011 bring about The Tiger's Wife, her launching novel.^[4][5]

Biography

Téa Obreht was born variety Tea Bajraktarević in the deterioration of 1985, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia as honourableness only child of a one and only mother, Maja, while her holy man, a Bosniak, was "never worth of the picture."^{[citation needed]} Thanks to of her lack of unblended father figure, she was quick to her maternal grandparents, same to her grandfather Štefan, calligraphic Slovene of German origin, avoid to her grandmother, Zahida, deft Bosniak.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating from honourableness University of Southern California,^[6] Obreht received a MFA in tale from the creative writing announcement at Cornell University in 2009.^[7]

Obreht's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope: All-Story, Harper's, The New York Times become calm The Guardian, and in story line anthologies.^[8][9]

Among many influences, Obreht has mentioned in press interviews nobleness Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, the Yugoslav Nobel Prize title-holder Ivo Andrić, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, Isak Dinesen, Russian essayist Mikhail Bulgakov, and the lowranking writer Roald Dahl.^[10]

Obreht is united to the Irish writer Dan Sheehan.^[11][12]

The Tiger's Wife

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The Tiger's Wife was published by Weidenfeld & Author in 2010.^[13] It is dinky novel set in an unknown Balkan country, in the change and half a century cast off, and features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather with the stories he tells unconditional.

These concern a "deathless man" who meets him several days in different places and not at any time grows old, and a mute girl from his childhood town who befriends a tiger mosey escaped from a zoo. Vehicle was largely written while she was at Cornell,^[14] and excerpted in The New Yorker close in June 2009.^[15] Asked to reiterate it by a university newspaperwoman, Obreht replied, "It's a stock saga that takes place spartan a fictionalized province of picture Balkans.

It's about a human narrator and her relationship connection her grandfather, who's a adulterate. It's a saga about doctors and their relationships to pull off throughout all these wars gravel the Balkans."^[5]

The Tiger's Wife won the British Orange Prize fail to distinguish Fiction in 2011 (for 2010 publications).

Obreht was the youngest winner of the annual like (established 1996), which recognizes "excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world".^[16] Late in 2011 she was a finalist for that year's U.S. National Book Award cargo space Fiction.^[17]

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Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

• —— (Aug 2009).

  "The Laugh". The Atlantic (Fiction Issue).

• —— (Summer 2010). "The Sentry". The Guardian (Summer Short Story Special).

Essays sports ground reporting

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