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
mother pain memories
My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.
silence secret matter
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
memories grandfather stones
In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
grandfather my-grandfather
My grandfather and I were very close.
happens knows
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
fiction
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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.
jobs children men
When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?