蒂亚·欧布莱特

蒂亚·欧布莱特（英语：Téa Obreht，1985年9月30日—），美国小说家。

经历

出生于塞尔维亚贝尔格莱德，原姓Bajraktarević，是母亲玛嘉的独生女，父亲很少与她们相处，蒂亚与外祖父母更亲近。20世纪末南斯拉夫战争爆发时，虽未直接波及蒂亚与母亲，她们还是出于预防搬至塞浦路斯，18个月后又与外祖父母搬至开罗。1997年时蒂亚的外祖父母回到贝尔格莱德，蒂亚与母亲则移民美国。2006年蒂亚的外祖父去世，临终前要求蒂亚以他的姓氏欧布莱特为笔名，不久后蒂亚决定将自己的本名改为蒂亚·欧布莱特。她从南加州大学毕业，于2009年获得康乃尔大学创意写作课程的小说硕士学位。

2011年出版第一本小说《老虎的妻子》，本作品于同年获得英国柑橘小说奖，2013年获得日本本屋大赏翻译小说部门第1位。

Téa Obreht (born Tea Bajraktarević; 30 September 1985) is an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.

Biography

Téa Obreht was born as Tea Bajraktarević in the autumn of 1985, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia as the only child of a single mother, Maja, while her father, a Bosniak, was "never part of the picture." Because of her lack of a father figure, she was close to her maternal grandparents, especially to her grandfather Štefan, a Slovene of German origin, and to her grandmother, Zahida, a Bosniak.

After graduating from the University of Southern California, Obreht received a MFA in fiction from the creative writing program at Cornell University in 2009.

Obreht's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope: All-Story, Harper's, The New York Times and The Guardian, and in story anthologies.

Among many influences, Obreht has mentioned in press interviews the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, the Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, Isak Dinesen, Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, and the children's writer Roald Dahl.

Obreht is married to the Irish writer Dan Sheehan.

The Tiger's Wife

The Tiger's Wife was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2010. It is a novel set in an unnamed Balkan country, in the present and half a century ago, and features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her. These concern a "deathless man" who meets him several times in different places and never grows old, and a deaf-mute girl from his childhood village who befriends a tiger that escaped from a zoo. It was largely written while she was at Cornell, and excerpted in The New Yorker in June 2009. Asked to summarize it by a university journalist, Obreht replied, "It's a family saga that takes place in a fictionalized province of the Balkans. It's about a female narrator and her relationship to her grandfather, who's a doctor. It's a saga about doctors and their relationships to death throughout all these wars in the Balkans."

The Tiger's Wife won the British Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 (for 2010 publications). Obreht was the youngest winner of the annual prize (established 1996), which recognizes "excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world". Late in 2011 she was a finalist for that year's U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

Inland

Inland was published by Penguin Random House in 2019. It is set in the American West in the late 19th century.

The Morningside

Obreht's third novel The Morningside was published in 2024.

Sunrise

Sunrise, Obreht's fourth novel, was published August 11, 2026 by Penguin Random House.