Téa Obdreh
Téa Obendet (born Tea Barjaktarević ; born September 30, 1985 in Belgrade , then Yugoslavia ) is an American writer .
Life
Until the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars in 1992, Obendet lived with her mother and mother's parents in Belgrade. The family went first to Cyprus and then to Cairo , Egypt , from where their grandparents moved back to Belgrade in 1997. She moved to Atlanta , Georgia, USA with her mother and then later to Palo Alto , California .
Obendet's grandfather made her on her deathbed promise in 2006 to publish her future works under his name. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts and received an MFA degree in Fiction from Cornell University's Creative Writing Program in 2009 .
Obendet currently (2011) lives in Ithaca , New York . Her short stories and short stories have appeared in The Atlantic (short story The Laugh August 2009), The New Yorker (story Blue Water Djinn on August 2, 2010), Harper's Magazine (short story Twilight of the Vampires: Hunting the Real Life Undead 2010), The New York Times, and The Guardian .
Honourings and prices
- 2011: Orange Prize for Fiction , a British award for women authors, for The Tiger's Wife
- 2011 finalist of the US competition National Book Award in the category of fiction of the National Book Foundation , New York City for The Tiger's Wife
Publications
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The Tiger's Wife , Random House, New York 2011 ISBN 978-0-385-34383-1 .
- The Tiger Woman , German by Bettina Abarbanell , Rowohlt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87134-712-2 .
- Domestic , Random House, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0812992861 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Téa Obendet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's website
- Short story The Laugh online
- Orange Prize for Fiction June 8, 2011
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Do you, Téa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barjaktarević, Tea (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belgrade , Yugoslavia |