Sara Nović

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 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]