{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Sofia Samatar","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/sofia-samatar","author_name":"Sofia Samatar","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/sofia-samatar","description":"Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories; the short story collection Tender; and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, a British Fantasy Award and a World Fantasy Award. She has also been a finalist for a Locus Award, a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award and the Calvino Prize. Her work has appeared in several \u0026#39;best of the year\u0026#39; anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Samatar holds a PhD in African languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and she currently teaches African literature, Arabic literature in translation and speculative fiction at James Madison University.\n\n(Source: HURST publisher author bio.) \n\nPhoto by Beowulf Sheehan.","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/author/234860/791608de-a357-4d08-9d03-7effea9e6b3d.jpg","thumbnail_width":760,"thumbnail_height":738}