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How to pronounce Elizabeth Kostova: kos-TOE-va
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress. The Historian took her ten years to write, and was inspired by the vampire stories told to her by her father, a professor of urban planning, during the year they spent in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia (where her father taught at the university) when she was seven, and as they traveled through Europe.
Her second novel The Swan Thieves was published in 2010.
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