Dinaw Mengestu

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Dinaw Mengestu (2014)

Dinaw Mengestu (born June 30, 1978 in Addis Ababa ) is an Ethiopian-American writer.

Life

Dinaw Mengestu's parents fled Ethiopia to the USA in 1980 for political reasons . Mengestu grew up in Peoria , Illinois and attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park . He studied literature at Georgetown University (BA) and Columbia University (MFA) and received a writing scholarship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2006 . In 2012 he received a MacArthur Fellowship .

Mengestu published a report on the Darfur conflict in Rolling Stone magazine and also contributed to Harper's and The Wall Street Journal . He is teaching literature at Georgetown University. He lives in New York with his wife Anne-Emmanuelle Mengestu.

Mengestu wrote his first novel Zum Wiedersehen der Sterne in 2007 , which won several awards, including the Guardian First Book Award , the Los Angeles Times Book Prize , and the French translation received the Prix ​​du premier roman .

Works (selection)

  • The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears . New York: Penguin Riverhead, 2007 ISBN 1594489408
    • To see the stars again. Novel . Translation by Volker Oldenburg. Berlin: Claassen, 2009 ISBN 9783546004398
  • Children of the Revolution . London: Vintage, 2008, ISBN 9780099502739
  • How to Read the Air . Penguin, 2010 ISBN 9781594487705
    • The melody of the air. Novel . Translation by Volker Oldenburg. Berlin: Ullstein, 2010 ISBN 9783550088230
  • All our names . New York: Knopf, 2014
    • Our names. Novel . Translation by Verena Kilchling. Zurich: No and No, 2014 ISBN 9783036957029

literature

  • Bénédicte Ledent: Reconfiguring the African diaspora in Dinaw Mengestu's “The beautiful things that heaven bears” . In: Research in African literatures . Vol. 46, 2015, no. 4, pp. 107–118

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Harvkey: From Addis Ababa to Paris, via Peoria . Publishers Weekly , August 2, 2010, Vol. 257 (30), p. 26 ISSN  0000-0019
personal data
SURNAME Mengestu, Dinaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ethiopian-American writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Addis Ababa