SAARA EL-ARIFI

Reimagining fantasy: meet one of the brightest new stars in the genre

Jonathan Wright

THE WAY FORWARD, SAARA EL-ARIFI DECIDED, was to risk failing big. So it was that, as an unpublished novelist, she submitted to an agent she calls “the biggest dealmaker in Europe”, Juliet Mushens. It paid off. “I think she gets 700 queries a week, but she came back to me in 10 minutes and said, ‘Can I have the whole manuscript?’” Life since has been a “whirlwind”, partly set in motion by El-Arifi’s own fierce work ethic. Her third novel Faebound, the opening volume in a new trilogy, follows swiftly on the heels of two instalments in her Ending Fire trilogy. “My ambition is unparalleled,” she tells SFX and, while she’s more than self aware enough to deliver this line in a self-deprecating way, there’s clearly a grain of truth…

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SFX (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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