Sara Nović

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 Nović grew up between the United States and Croatia.

Career 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.

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. It was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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.

They are 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 Nović uses they and she pronouns and lives in Philadelphia.