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American novelist
Sara Nović
Born1987 (age 37–38)
Occupation
  • Author
  • writer
  • translator
  • editor
  • professor
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University (MFA)
Notable worksGirl at War (2015)
True Biz (2022)
Website
www.sara-novic.com

Sara Nović (born 1987) is an American writer, translator, and creative writing professor. Nović is also a deaf rights' activist who has written about the challenges she has faced as a deaf novelist.

Nović is most notable for her debut novel, Girl at War, which tells the story of Ana Jurić, a ten-year-old girl whose life is upended by the civil war that resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The novel was an Alex Awards recipient in 2016. In 2014, Nović was awarded an ALTA Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association. In addition to publishing her own literary works, Nović has translated poems written by Izet Sarajlić, a renowned Bosnian writer. Nović was awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize in 2013 for her translation of Sarajlić's poem "After I Was Wounded." She is also a recipient of the Alex Awards.

Nović's second book True Biz was released in 2022. The book follows Charlie to River Valley School for the Deaf as she deals with a faulty cochlear implant and meets other deaf people for the first time in her life. The book was chosen as a pick for Reese Witherspoon's book club and was reviewed as "moving, fast-paced and spirited — we have vivid access to all of the main characters' points of view — but also skillfully educational" by The New York Times.

Nović is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. She is a fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine and serves as the founding editor of the deaf rights' blog Redeafined. Nović also works as an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton University.

References

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  2. "Sara Novic - Interview". BookPage.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  3. "Opinion | The hearing world must stop asking the deaf to assimilate". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  4. Novic, Sara (2015-05-23). "What it's like to be a deaf novelist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  5. "What?! 6 Authors You Didn't Know Were Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing". #AmReading. 2016-10-30. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  6. Novic, Sara (2016-03-23). "Topography of a novel: Sara Novic on how she wrote Girl at War". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  7. Girl at War by Sara Novic | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
  8. "Girl at War". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  9. ^ "Sara Novic (2014 ALTA Fellow)". ALTA Blog. 2014-09-26. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  10. "3 winners for the 2013 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize". BLT. 2014-03-23. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  11. "True Biz: A Novel". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  12. Meloy, Maile (2022-03-15). "At a School for the Deaf, Signs of Change Are Clear". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-20.

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