Téa Obreht

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Téa Obreht

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Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American…

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Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation's list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in New York.

She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.

AUTHOR CAREER

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2011–20192 cataloged publications

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THE AUTHOR’S WRITING

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Other2 (100%)

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Genres and themes

Magical Realism2 / 2 books
Historical Fiction1 / 2 books