Serbian - Novelist | September 30, 1985 -
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
Tea Obreht
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
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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.
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My grandfather and I were very close.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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