Sara Nović | |
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Born | 1987 (age 36–37) |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University ( MFA) |
Notable works | Girl at War (2015) True Biz (2022) |
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Sara Nović (born 1987) is an American writer, translator, and creative writing professor. [1] [2] Nović is also a deaf rights' activist who has written about the challenges she has faced as a deaf novelist. [3] [4] [5]
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. [6] [7] [8] The novel was an Alex Awards recipient in 2016. In 2014, Nović was awarded an ALTA Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association. [9] 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." [10] She is also a recipient of the Alex Awards.
Nović's second book True Biz was released in 2022. [11] 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. [12]
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. [9]