Dinaw Mengestu
Novelist, Author
1978 –
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Who is Dinaw Mengestu?
Dinaw Mengestu is an award-winning Ethiopian-American novelist and writer. In addition to two novels, he has written for Rolling Stone on the war in Darfur, and for Jane Magazine on the conflict in northern Uganda. His writing has also appeared in Harper's, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. He is Lannan Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University. Since his first book was published in 2007, he has received numerous literary awards, and was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2012.
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- Born
- 1978
Addis Ababa - Spouses
- Nationality
- Ethiopia
- Profession
- Education
- Georgetown University
- Columbia University
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on July 23, 2013
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