New Release
Opacities
Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces an attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing.
Read More
![](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/divider.png)
![](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Sofia-Samatar-2-web.jpg)
Sofia Samatar is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoir The White Mosque, a PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist. Her works range from the award-winning epic fantasy A Stranger in Olondria to Opacities, a nonfiction book about writing, publishing, and friendship.
![](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/divider.png)
![](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/divider.png)
![](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/divider.png)
Conversations
![Conversations by Sofia Samatar](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/conversations-sofia-samatar-uai-490x490.jpg)
On Fantasy and the Poetry of the Past
With Safa Khatib at Words Without Borders
![](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/divider.png)
![](https://www.sofiasamatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/divider.png)