Sabaa Tahir

Sabaa Tahir
Tahir at the 2015 National Book Festival
Tahir at the 2015 National Book Festival
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUCLA
GenreFantasy
Notable works
Notable awardsNational Book Award

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

Michael L. Printz Award
Website
sabaatahir.com

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Sabaa Tahir | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time". Time. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  4. ^ "School Library Journal".
  5. ^ "Printz Winner 'All My Rage' Shares Universal Experiences and Message of Hope Youth Media Awards". School Library Journal.
  6. ^ "The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "Katniss Evergreen Hunger Games". The New York Times.
  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. ^ "The Ghosts of our Motel".