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Sofia Samatar (born 24 October 1971) is a Somali American educator, poet and writer. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University Channel Islands, and serves as a nonfiction and poetry editor for ''Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts''. In 2013, she published the award-winning fantasy novel ''A Stranger in Olondria''. ==Personal life== Samatar was born in 1971 in a small town in northern Indiana, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2013/06/sofia-samatar-stranger-scripts/ )〕 Her father is the prominent Somali scholar, historian and writer Said Sheikh Samatar. Her mother is a Swiss-German Mennonite from North Dakota.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://smallbeerpress.com/downloads/Small_Beer_Press_2012-low.pdf )〕 Sofia's parents met in 1970 in Mogadishu, Somalia, while her mother was teaching English. She has a brother, Del Samatar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://stonetelling.com/blog/?p=40 )〕 Growing up, Samatar lived in various places around the world. She attended a Mennonite high school. For her post-secondary education, Samatar studied at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.〔 She graduated from the institution in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. In 1997, Samatar earned a Master's degree in African languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. She subsequently completed a Ph.D. in 2013 at the institution in the same field, with a specialization in contemporary Arabic literature.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ciapps.csuci.edu/FacultyBiographies/sofia.samatar )〕 She wrote her dissertation on the Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih. Samatar is married to American writer Keith Miller.〔 They have two children, Isabel and Dominic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://issuu.com/goshencollege/docs/bulletin-fall-winter-2010-11 )〕 Samatar speaks several languages, including Arabic and English.〔 Additionally, she learned Swahili in college,〔 and picked up some Zande while teaching in Sudan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://djibrilalayad.blogspot.com/2013/11/wsadf-contributors-round-robin-interview.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sofia Samatar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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