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American writer (born 1985)

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

Biography

Téa Obreht was born as Tea Bajraktarević in the autumn of 1985, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia as the only child of a single mother, Maja, while her father, a Bosniak, was "never part of the picture."^{[citation needed]} Because of her lack of a father figure, she was close to her maternal grandparents, especially to her grandfather Štefan, a Slovene of German origin, and to her grandmother, Zahida, a Bosniak.^{[citation needed]}

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

Obreht's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope: