Her short story collection, Tender, includes the Hugo and Nebula finalist “Selkie Stories Are for Losers,” the miniature bestiary “Ogres of East Africa,” and other tales exploring the fragility of bodies and landscapes. Her second novel, The Winged Histories, completes the Olondria duology, a project that both challenges and revels in the genre of high fantasy. Samatar also received the 2014 Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Crawford Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and was included in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time and Esquire‘s list of the 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. Samatar’s first novel, the epic fantasy A Stranger in Olondria, won the 2014 William L. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award.
Through this history of connections across borders of religion and ethnicity, Samatar considers her own Somali and Mennonite heritage, as well as missionaries, travel writing, apocalyptic visions, and the many ways we enter the stories of others.
Sofia Samatar’s most recent book, the memoir The White Mosque, tells the story of her trip to Uzbekistan to research a group of Mennonites who followed a charismatic preacher to Central Asia in the nineteenth century.
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