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Sofia Samatar
1 workpublishing since 2024
Sofia Samatar is an American writer born in 1971 in Indiana to a Somali father and a Swiss-German Mennonite mother, who teaches literature at James Madison University in Virginia. Her first novel, A Stranger in Olondria (2013), won the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award, and she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has since published The Winged Histories, the story collection Tender, the memoir The White Mosque and the novella The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (2024).
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Sofia Samatar is an American writer born in 1971 in Indiana to a Somali father and a Swiss-German Mennonite mother, who teaches literature at James Madison University in Virginia. Her first novel, A Stranger in Olondria (2013), won the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award, and she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has since published The Winged Histories, the story collection Tender, the memoir The White Mosque and the novella The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (2024).
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- ReleasedApr 16