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Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar is a fabulist, a futurist, and a memoirist. Her most recent books are Monster Portraits (with Del Samatar, 2018) and The White Mosque (2022).

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Midwest

By Kate Zambreno and Sofia SamatarApril 18, 2023
Sofia Samatar is the author of five books, most recently the memoir The White Mosque. Kate Zambreno is the author of nine books, most recently…
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You Belong Here, Beloved Reader - An Interview with Diriye Osman

By Sofia SamatarJune 28, 2022
"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session"
Essays & Reviews

Skin Feeling

By Sofia SamatarSeptember 25, 2015
What it is to be encountered as a surface, to be constantly exposed as something you are not.
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Against the Normative World

By Sofia SamatarApril 9, 2015
A theorist who left behind a position as a preacher in the Blackpentecostal church returns to its practices for the potency of their critique
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What Even is African Literature Anyway

By Sofia Samatar, Keguro Macharia and Aaron BadyFebruary 9, 2015
Is "African Literature" a genre or a curse, a tradition or a cordoning off?
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