Sara Nović
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Sara Nović (born 1987) is an American writer, translator, and professor.[1][2][3] Nović is also a deaf rights activist who has written about the challenges she faces as a deaf novelist.[4][5][6] Nović is most known for their debut novel, Girl at War.
Early life and education
[edit]Nović grew up between the United States and Croatia.[2]
She is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. [7]
Career
[edit]Nović has translated poems by Bosnian writer Izet Sarajlić. Nović was awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize in 2013 for their translation of Sarajlić's poem "After I Was Wounded".[8] In 2014, Nović was awarded a Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association.[9]
Her debut novel, Girl at War, 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.[10][11][12][13][2] The novel was an Alex Award recipient in 2016.[14] It was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.[13][7]
In 2019, Nović released the nonfiction project America is Immigrants, illustrated by Alison Kolesar. It was published by Penguin Random House as an e-book.[15]
Nović's second book True Biz was released in 2022.[16] The book follows protagonist Charlie to the River Valley School for the Deaf, where she deals with a faulty cochlear implant and meets other deaf people for the first time in her life. The book was a Reese's Book Club pick and was reviewed as "moving, fast-paced and spirited [...] but also skillfully educational" by The New York Times.[17][18] The novel integrates excerpts from Wikipedia pages and other sources to offer educational content about American Sign Language and Deaf culture and history.[19]
They are a fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine and serves as the founding editor of the deaf rights blog Redeafined.[20][21]
Nović teaches creative writing and Deaf studies at Emerson College and Stockton University.[9][22]
Personal life
[edit]Nović uses they and she pronouns[23] and lives in Philadelphia.[24][22]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sara Nović". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- 1 2 3 Ohlsen, Becky (May 2015). "Sara Novic". BookPage. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ↑ Motes-Conners, Kelsey; Nelson, Emma Fricke; Ulicny, Sarah. "An Interview with Sara Nović". Northwest Review. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ Nović, Sara (October 20, 2017). "The hearing world must stop asking the deaf to assimilate". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ↑ Nović, Sara (2015-05-23). "What it's like to be a deaf novelist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ↑ Hurley, A.D. (2016-10-30). "What?! 6 Authors You Didn't Know Were Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing". AmReading. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- 1 2 "Sara Novic". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ Gayle, J.K. (2014-03-23). "3 winners for the 2013 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize". Bible Literature Translation. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- 1 2 Rowan, E. (2014-09-26). "Sara Novic (2014 ALTA Fellow)". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Girl at War by Sara Novic: 9780812986396". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ "Girl at War". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- 1 2 Passmore, Lynsey (2016-04-10). "Archives: Q&A with Sara Novic". Women's Prize. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ "2016 Alex Awards Winners". American Library Association. January 23, 2017. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ "America Is Immigrants by Sara Novic: 9781984819833". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ "True Biz: Reese's Book Club by Sara Novic: 9780593241523". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "True Biz". Reese's Book Club. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ McFadden, Taryn (2022-05-16). "True biz? There's a lot to learn in Sara Nović's new book". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ "Sara Nović". Blunderbuss Magazine. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ Nelson, S. Tremaine (2015-07-07). "Putting the War in Plain Sight: An Interview with Sara Nović". The Common. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- 1 2 Ghani, Bareerah (Spring 2022). "'On Fighting ASL Stigma and Amplifying Deaf Voices': An Interview with Sara Nović". The Ex-Puritan. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ "True Biz by Sara Nović". Grab the Lapels. 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
- ↑ "Sara Nović". Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. Retrieved 2026-03-29.
External links
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- Deaf writers
- Novelists from New Jersey
- 21st-century American women novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American translators
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Columbia University faculty
- Fashion Institute of Technology faculty
- Stockton University faculty
- American deaf people
- Novelists from New York (state)
- Deaf scholars and academics
- American writers with disabilities
- 21st-century American women academics
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