Goshen native, Sofia Samatar, returns for reading at St. Joseph County Public Library

Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune
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Goshen native Sofia Samatar gives a reading 7 p.m. Nov. 15, 2023, at the St. Joseph County Public Library, 304 S. Main St. She also appears at 2 p.m. Nov. 14 in conversation with Johannes Göransson on the second floor of the University of Notre Dame’s Hammes Bookstore.
Goshen native Sofia Samatar gives a reading 7 p.m. Nov. 15, 2023, at the St. Joseph County Public Library, 304 S. Main St. She also appears at 2 p.m. Nov. 14 in conversation with Johannes Göransson on the second floor of the University of Notre Dame’s Hammes Bookstore.
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SOUTH BEND — The University of Notre Dame’s creative writing program and the St. Joseph County Public Library present “Kelly Community Reading Series: An Evening with Sofia Samatar” at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at 304 S. Main St. She also appears at 2 p.m. Nov. 14 in conversation with Johannes Göransson on the second floor of Notre Dame’s Hammes Bookstore.

A native of Goshen, Samatar is an award-winning, multi-genre author whose groundbreaking fantasy novel, “A Stranger in Olondria,” was called one of the 100 best fantasy books of all-time by Time magazine. The book also won the 2014 William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and the World Fantasy Award for best novel.

Her recent memoir, “The White Mosque,” was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and won the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir.

Other books include “The Winged Histories,” a sequel to “A Stranger in Olondria”; the short story collection “Tender: Stories”; and “Monster Portraits,” a collaboration with her brother, Del Samatar, who illustrated it.

This month, she and Kate Zambreno will release “Tone,” a collaborative study of literary tone.

Samatar lives in Virginia and teaches African literature, Arabic literature and speculative fiction at James Madison University.

Admission to both events is free.

For more information, call 574-631-2569, visit https://english.nd.edu/news-events/events/2023/11/15/kelly-community-reading-series-ft-sofia-samatar/ or https://sjcpl.libnet.info/event/8900636, or email cwriting@nd.edu.

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