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Téa Obreht


Yugoslavia (b.1985)

Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harpers, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required 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 Foundations list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in Ithaca, New York.
 

Awards: Women's Prize (2011), NBA (2010)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
August 2026

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Sunrise
 
Novels
   The Tiger's Wife (2011)
   Inland (2019)
   The Morningside (2024)
   Sunrise (2026)
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Books containing stories by Téa Obreht
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The Best American Short Stories 2018 (2018)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Roxane Gay
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Tales of Two Cities (2015)
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
edited by
John Freeman

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Awards
2011 Women's Prize For Fiction : The Tiger's Wife
2010 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 : The Tiger's Wife

Award nominations
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist) : Inland
2012 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist) : The Tiger's Wife
2011 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : The Tiger's Wife


Téa Obreht recommends
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The Slip (2025)
Lucas Schaefer
"Quite simply, The Slip is everything an epic novel should be, everything you want an epic novel to be: symphonic, expansive, irresistibly engrossing, utterly unpredictable. It is immense in ambition, bursting with language, dauntless in scope and imagination; an ode to the infinite crossroads of life that lead each soul to its present moment. That this is a debut staggers me."
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The House on Buzzards Bay (2025)
Dwyer Murphy
"A delicious, brooding heart-stopper of a book."
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The Unwanted (2025)
Boris Fishman
"The Unwanted is a tightrope of a novel: tense, precise, stunning in its scope and power, unnerving in the flashes of familiarity that burst through its inventions."

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