Exile, Nostalgia and Letting Go

Téa Obreht won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife, which was also a 2011 National Book Award finalist and an international bestseller. Her work has been anthologised in The Best American Short Stories and has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, Vogue and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her new novel is called The Morningside. 

Jo Case is a writer, editor and critic who lives in Adelaide. She is deputy editor, Books & Ideas at The Conversation and has worked in various roles in books and publishing, including as a publisher, festival programmer and literary editor. She is co-editor, with Clem Bastow, of Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers (UQP, 2025). Her memoir of autistic motherhood is Boomer and Me (Hardie Grant, 2013).