Sabaa Tahir | |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | UCLA |
Genre | Fantasy |
Notable works |
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Notable awards | National Book Award Michael L. Printz Award |
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Sabaa Tahir is an American [1] young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes , its sequels, and the novel All My Rage . [2]
Two of her novels, An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night, were listed among Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time in 2020. [3] In 2022, her novel All My Rage won the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature [4] and the Michael L. Printz Award. [5]
Tahir has also published non-fiction reviews and essays in The New York Times, [6] [7] The Washington Post [8] and Vox. [9]
Tahir grew up in the Mojave Desert in Ridgecrest, California, with her parents and two older brothers. [1] Her parents had emigrated from Pakistan to the United Kingdom before moving their family to the United States. [1] She attended UCLA, during which time she interned at The Washington Post . After graduation, she took a job there as a copy editor. [10] She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1]
(Spin-off to An Ember in the Ashes)
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