A Stranger in Olondria

World Fantasy Award for Best Novel · 2014 · WinnerBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel · 2013 · Winner

Small Beer PressMay 1, 2013sffISBN 9781931520768

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel	2014	Winner	“Sofia Samatar's debut won the World Fantasy for its extraordinary prose poetry, its meditation on reading and literacy as transformative forces, and its creation of a fully realized secondary world in lyrical miniature.”
British Fantasy Award for Best Novel	2013	Winner	“Sofia Samatar's debut won the BFA for its extraordinary literary prose and its creation of a fully imagined fantasy world from a single, haunted point of view.”

About This Book

A young pepper merchant from a remote island travels to the empire of Olondria, where he becomes haunted by the ghost of a girl he barely knew—a lyrical meditation on reading, colonialism, and the power of stories.

About the Author

Sofia SamatarUS

Sofia Samatar is an American author of fantasy and literary fiction known for her novel A Stranger in Olondria (World Fantasy Award winner, 2014). Her work is celebrated for its lyrical prose, deeply literary sensibility, and its exploration of reading, writing, and storytelling as themes within fantasy. Samatar grew up in the American Midwest with roots in Somalia, Egypt, and Switzerland. Read more →

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