In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
From Tea Obreht
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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.
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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