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Mother Tongue; A Memoir


Sara Nović (born 1987) is an American writer, translator, and
professor. Nović is also a deaf rights activist who has written about
the challenges she faces as a deaf novelist. Nović is most known for
their debut novel, 'Girl at War.'


                       Early life and education                       
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Nović grew up between the United States and Croatia.

She is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, where she
studied fiction and literary translation.


                                Career                                
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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". In 2014, Nović
was awarded a Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators
Association.

Nović's 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. The novel was an Alex Award
recipient in 2016. It was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
and shortlisted for the 'Los Angeles Times' Book Prize.

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.

Nović's second book 'True Biz' was released in 2022. 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'. The novel integrates
excerpts from Wikipedia pages and other sources to offer educational
content about American Sign Language and Deaf culture and history.

Nović is a fiction editor at 'Blunderbuss Magazine' and serves as the
founding editor of the deaf rights blog 'Redeafined'.

Nović teaches creative writing and Deaf studies at Emerson College and
Stockton University.


                            Personal life                             
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Nović uses they and she pronouns and lives in Philadelphia.


                            External links                            
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* [https://www.amazon.com/Sara-Novic/e/B00O2SUJS4 Amazon author
profile]


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