We are looking forward to launching Téa Obreht’s new novel, Sunrise . Known for her Orange Prize winning The Tiger’s Wife , Obreht has since released Inland and The Morningside , and was named one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty by The New Yorker. In short, we are delighted to welcome her to Dublin! Obreht will be in conversation with fellow author Belinda McKeon to discuss Sunrise.
All are welcome to attend.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
PRAISE FOR SUNRISE
“I’ve loved every book Téa Obreht has written but I might love this one the most. It’s tense and beautifully constructed, and it features Obreht’s signature precision when it comes to both language and emotion. Please put this book into the hands of everyone you know.”-Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
“Sunrise is thrilling and ingenious. In her new novel, Obreht explores this country’s troubled past, its gaps and silences, and the rich history that only new storytellers can excavate.”-Laila Lalami, bestselling author of The Dream Hotel
“Sunrise is everything you could wish for from a storyteller of Obreht’s caliber: a witty, propulsive tale of survival, a spirited reckoning with the ambivalences of American life, a deep dive into the secret histories of the West. Spellbinding and ingeniously crafted, this novel deepens Obreht’s reputation as one of our moment’s most original bards and shows the power of story to orient, investigate, and illuminate.”-Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Something New Under the Sun
ABOUT
TÉA OBREHT’s debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife , won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Inland , was an instant New York Times bestseller, won the Ballard Prize and the BRLA Southwest Book Award, and was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize. In 2024, her third novel, The Morningside, was a finalist for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading , and has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Vogue, Esquire and Zoetrope: All-Story , among many others. She was the recipient of the Rona Jaffe fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and a 2016 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. From 2020 to 2022, she served as the Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. She currently lives in Wyoming with her family.
BELINDA MCKEON is a novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is the author of the novels Solace (2011) and Tender 2015), and has had short fiction and non-fiction published in The Paris Review , Granta , Winter Papers , A Public Space , The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. Her plays have been produced in Dublin and New York, most recently at the 2017 Dublin Theatre Festival, with Nora (Corn Exchange). After almost two decades in the US, where she taught at Rutgers University, she is now an Associate Professor in the English Department at Maynooth University, where she directs the MA in Creative Writing.