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"Selkie Stories Are for Losers" was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, [1] the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, [2] the 2014 World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction, [3] and the 2014 BSFA Award for Short Fiction.
John "na Seamer" Burke, Baron Leitrim (Irish: Seán mac an Iarla a Búrc; / ˈ l iː t r əm /; LEE-trəm; died 1583), also known as John of the Shamrocks, was one of the notorious half-brothers called the meic an Iarla ('sons of the earl'), whose conflicts with each other and their father, Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde, caused devastation to south Connacht several times between the ...
Abdi Ismail Samatar (born 1950), Somali scholar, writer and Professor of Geography; Hasan Adan Samatar (born 1953), Somali singer and guitarist; Hawa Abdi Samatar (born 19??), Somali political figure
Samatar is an associate professor of English at James Madison University. [6]Samatar's first novel A Stranger in Olondria [2] was published in 2013. [7]Samatar has also published qasīdas in English and collaborated with her brother on a book of illustrated prose poems, entitled Monster Portraits, which was published in 2018 by Rose Metal Press.
On August 14, 2010, Samatar received a lifetime achievement award from leaders of the Somali community in Minneapolis.A spokesman for Eagle Media, which had put together the tribute dinner and gala party, indicated that the organization had sought to present Samatar the prize years earlier but was waiting for the artist to return to Minnesota.
Samatar was born in 1964 in Somalia.He grew up in a diverse area in Kismayo, situated in the southern Lower Juba province. Samatar's father had originally moved down from the northeastern Puntland region at the age of twelve, and his mother hailed from the southern town of Afmadow.
Said was born in 1943 in the Ogaden in Ethiopia to Faduma and Sheikh Samatar. He came from a large family consisting of fourteen people, including his father's second wife. Samatar spent his early years in a nomadic environment, where he writes that "seasons of plenty" with "fragrant flowers blooming all over the fallowed fields, abundant milk and meat" alternated with the "perennial threat of ...
Mohammad Ali Samatar. (Arabic: محمد علي سمتر, Somali: Maxamed Cali Samantar, Osmanya script: 𐒑𐒙𐒔𐒖𐒑𐒑𐒖𐒑𐒗𐒆 𐒖𐒐𐒘 ...