Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste (* 1971 in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia ) is an Ethiopian -American author .
Life
Mengiste left her home with her family as a toddler at the age of just under four, due to the consequences of the revolution in the country after the fall of the then emperor Haile Selassie . She then lived in Lagos , Nigeria and Nairobi , Kenya before coming to the United States. There she graduated from New York University with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing . In 2010 she published her first novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze , which appeared in 2013 as Under the Eyes of the Lion in the German translation by Andreas Jandl.
Mengiste writes regularly for The New York Times , Granta Magazine and Callaloo Magazine on topics related to the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974, about migrants and their fate in Europe. Human rights are also one of their topics. She is on the advisory board of the online magazine Warscapes and the children's aid organization Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights .
The author lives in New York City and is visiting professor of creative writing at Queens College, City University of New York and lecturer of creative writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University in Princeton . From January to June 2020, Mengiste will be in Zurich as Writer in Residence for the Literaturhaus Zürich and the PWG Foundation .
Awards and honors
- Fulbright Scholar
- Fellow of the Emily Harvey Foundation
- Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- Scholarship holder of the Prague Summer Program
- Fellow in Yaddo , Saratoga Springs, New York State
- 2011: Runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in the fiction category for Beneath the Lion's Gaze .
- 2013: Peterbaugh Fellow of World Literature Today
- 2019: Inclusion in the New Daughters of Africa anthology by Margaret Busby
Publications
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze. Norton, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-393-33888-1 .
- German: Under the eyes of the lion. Roman, translated by Andreas Jandl. Verlag das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88423-400-6 .
- The Shadow King. New York 2019
literature
- Biography in Swedish: Anita Theorell: Afrika har ordet . Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , Uppsala, Sweden 2010, ISBN 978-91-7106-673-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Maaza Mengiste in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's website
- Her biography on a Princeton University page
- Biography at Warscapes
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/coronakrise-nach-hause-wenn-dort-die-pandemie-ausbricht-ld.1561192 , accessed on June 23, 2020
- ↑ https://www.writers-in-residence.ch/
- ↑ A country on the move over half a million victims. In: FAZ . January 14, 2013, p. 28.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mengiste, Maaza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ethiopian-American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Addis Ababa , Ethiopia |