Tea Obreht interviews on Eye on Books: |
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 The Tiger’s Wife 2011 |
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There may be older Tea Obreht interviews at Eye on Books Classic |
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About Tea Obreht |
Photo: Beowulf Sheehan 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. On The Webwww.teaobreht.comQuotes“[Do you feel any pressure, being this successful this early in your career?] I think it would be a lie to say no, but I think that a lot of that pressure I feel now is internal. And I think a lot of it has come from a fear that the next thing I write will not come from that same emotional place [as this book]. The pressure I feel now is to “attach” to the new work.” |
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