![]() ![]() Samatar returns to Olondria with “The Winged Histories,” out Tuesday from Small Beer Press. The book won a British Fantasy Award for best novel. In rich, poetic prose and employing lavish imagination, “A Stranger in Olondria” introduced this remarkable country where ghosts, religious fanatics and warring factions converged. It was 2013 when Samatar published her debut novel, “A Stranger in Olondria,” with Small Beer Press, the Massachusetts-based fantasy imprint run by Kelly Link and her husband, Gavin Grant. Now, with a doctorate in African languages and literature, she lives in Ventura and brings a dynamic set of cultural and linguistic influences to her fiction. Passionate about languages, Samatar moved to South Sudan and later to Egypt during her twenties to teach English and learn Arabic with her husband author Keith Miller. Sofia Samatar was born to a Somali father and Swiss German Mennonite mother in a small town in northern Indiana. ![]()
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