--- title: Téa Obreht | TIME description: Obreht is a novelist, whose debut, The Tiger’s Wife, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was an international bestseller. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’sMagazine, and Zoetrope: All-Story, among many others. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she now lives in Wyoming with her family canonical: https://time.com/author/tea-obreht/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/tea-obreht/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Téa Obreht ## Téa Obreht [Obreht](http://www.teaobreht.com/) is a novelist, whose debut, _The Tiger’s Wife_, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was an international bestseller. Her work has appeared in _The Best American Short Stories_, _The New Yorker_, _The Atlantic_, _Harper’s_ _Magazine,_ and _Zoetrope: All-Story_, among many others. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she now lives in Wyoming with her family ## Téa Obreht *  Mar 19, 2024 ### [Why I'm Teaching My Daughter My Mother's Language](https://time.com/6958026/mother-tongue-tea-obreht-essay/) In a personal essay, Téa Obreht makes the case for preserving mother tongues. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 17, 2020 ### [The Searing Relevance of Animal Farm in 2020](https://time.com/5880178/george-orwell-animal-farm-still-relevant/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/tea-obreht/","name":"Téa Obreht"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/tea-obreht/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/tea-obreht/"},"name":"Téa Obreht","jobTitle":"","description":"Obreht is a novelist, whose debut, The Tiger’s Wife, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was an international bestseller. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’sMagazine, and Zoetrope: All-Story, among many others. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she now lives in Wyoming with her family","url":"https://time.com/author/tea-obreht/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```