Tea Obreht — Serbian Novelist born on September 30, 1985,

Téa Obreht is an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel... (wikipedia)

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.
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
My grandfather and I were very close.
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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.