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]
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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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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]
References
edit- ^ "Sara Nović". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ "Sara Novic - Interview". BookPage.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ "Opinion | The hearing world must stop asking the deaf to assimilate". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ Novic, Sara (2015-05-23). "What it's like to be a deaf novelist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ "What?! 6 Authors You Didn't Know Were Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing". #AmReading. 2016-10-30. 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 | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
- ^ "Girl at War". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ a b "Sara Novic (2014 ALTA Fellow)". ALTA Blog. 2014-09-26. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ "3 winners for the 2013 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize". BLT. 2014-03-23. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ "True Biz: A Novel". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ 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.