Dinaw mengestu author biography
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Dinaw Mengestu
Ethiopian-American novelist and writer (born )
Dinaw Mengestu (ዲናው መንግስቱ) (born 30 June ) is an Ethiopian American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for Rolling Stone on the war in Darfur, and for Jane Magazine on the conflict in northern Uganda.[1] His writing has also appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications.
He is the Program Director of Written Arts at Bard College.[2] In the National Book Foundation named him a "5 under 35" honoree. Since his first book was published in , he has received numerous literary awards, and was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in [3]
Early life
[edit]Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in , during a period of political repression that became known as the Red Terror. His father, who was an executive with Ethiopian Airlines, applied for political asylum while on a business trip in Italy; Mengestu's m
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Dinaw Mengestu
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Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in In he immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister, joining his father, who had fled the communist revolution in Ethiopia two years before. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction. He is the recipient of a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Each of his novels–The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, How to Read the Air, and All Our Names–have been well received by critics across the world.
Mengestu has also reported stories for Harper’s and Jane magazine, profiling a young woman who was kidnapped and forced to become a soldier in the brutal war in Uganda, and for Rolling Stone on the tragedy in Darfur. The Lannan Visiting Writer at Georgetown University for spring and a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, Mengestu was the Lannan Foundation Chair in Poetics from He lives in New York wit
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