Nada Alic

{{Short description|Canadian writer}}

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| name = Nada Alić

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| birth_name = Nada Alić

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1986}}

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Novelist
• Writer}}

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| alma_mater = University of Guelph-Humber

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Fiction
• Essays
• Short Stories}}

| partner = Ryan Hahn

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| notableworks = Bad Thoughts

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}}Nada Alić is a Croatian-Canadian writer based in Los Angeles.{{cite news |last=Zhu |first=Eva |title=Nada Alic writes about women you probably won't like, but you'll probably relate to anyway |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/nada-alic-writes-about-women-you-probably-won-t-like-but-you-ll-probably-relate-to-anyway-1.6562908 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Company |date=13 October 2022}} Her debut short story collection [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691492/bad-thoughts-by-nada-alic/ Bad Thoughts] was published by Vintage Books in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Bad Thoughts by Nada Alic: 9780593466636 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691492/bad-thoughts-by-nada-alic/ |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}} Bad Thoughts was a New York Times Editors' Choice pick{{cite news |title=12 New Books We Recommend This Week |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/books/review/12-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html |work=The New York Times |date=22 September 2022}} and a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2023.Cassandra Drudi, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/kim-fu-wins-10k-danuta-gleed-literary-award/ "Kim Fu wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award"]. Quill & Quire. 25 May 2023. Her short story The Intruder was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Prize in 2019.{{cite web |title=The Intruder by Nada Alic |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/the-intruder-by-nada-alic-1.5079872 |publisher=CBC Books}}