Sara Farizan | |
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![]() Sara Farizan speaking at the Boston Book Festival in 2023 | |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Iranian |
Genre | young adult |
Notable works | If You Could Be Mine |
Notable awards |
Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature. [1] [2]
Her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine , won the Ferro-Grumley Award, [3] the Edmund White Award [3] and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014, [4] and was named to the American Library Association Rainbow List as one of the year's best LGBT-themed books. Her other novels are Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, which was again named to the Rainbow List for 2015, [5] and Here to Stay. [2]