4 Quotes & Sayings By Tea Obreht

Tea Obreht is a British-American author and the recipient of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for The Tiger's Wife. Her other works include The Tiger's Daughter, The Tiger's Bride, and The Tiger's Son. Obreht was born in London and raised in North Carolina. She received her BA from Columbia University and her PhD from Stanford Read more

She has taught at Princeton, Brown, and Sarah Lawrence College, and currently teaches at Harvard. Her first novel was translated into seven languages and won the 2009 National Jewish Book Award.

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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia. Tea Obreht
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. Tea Obreht
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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain. Tea Obreht