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Sabaa Tahir

Sabaa Tahir

American young adult novelist

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]

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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]

Life

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]

Bibliography

Fantasy

An Ember in the Ashes series

Graphic novel prequel
  • A Thief Among the Trees (2020)
  • A Spark Within the Forge (2022)
  • TBA
Heir Duology

(Spin-off to An Ember in the Ashes)

  • Heir (2024)

Contemporary

Short fiction

  • Reirin, From a Certain Point of View, Del Rey, (2017)
  • Waiting, Three Sides of a Heart, ed. Natalie C. Parker, Harper Collins (2017)
  • News of the Day, The New York Times ed. Veronica Chambers and Jeff Giles, [The New York Times], (2019)
  • What the Winds Stole, Magic Has No Borders, ed. Samira Ahmed, Harper Teen (2023)

References

  1. [1]
    "'A Torch Against the Night' author Sabaa Tahir lights fantasy with dark true-life tales". EW.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Sabaa Tahir | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  3. [3]
    "The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time". Time. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  4. [4]
    "School Library Journal".
  5. [5]
    "Printz Winner 'All My Rage' Shares Universal Experiences and Message of Hope Youth Media Awards". School Library Journal.
  6. [6]
    "The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks". The New York Times.
  7. [7]
    "Katniss Evergreen Hunger Games". The New York Times.
  8. [8]
    "MS. MARVEL: Why does Marvel's latest book succeed? Because its new Muslim teen superhero is 'sweet, conflicted and immensely relatable'". The Washington Post.
  9. [9]
    "The Ghosts of our Motel".
  10. [10]
    Diaz, Shelley. "Chatting with Sabaa Tahir, SLJTeen Live! 2018 Keynote Speaker". School Library Journal. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
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