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Author photo. Dinaw Mengestu. Photo courtesy of US Embassy Canada.

Dinaw Mengestu. Photo courtesy of US Embassy Canada.

Dinaw Mengestu

Author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

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Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1978. In 1980, he, his mother, and his sister immigrated to the United States to join his father, who fled Ethiopia during the Red Terror. He graduated from Georgetown University and Columbia University's MFA program in fiction. He is the author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air. He has also written for several publications including Rolling Stone and Harper's. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears… (more)
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Works by Dinaw Mengestu
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears 1,086 copies, 47 reviews
How to Read the Air 472 copies, 40 reviews
All Our Names 444 copies, 26 reviews
Tutti i nostri nomi 1 copy
Paper Revolution 1 copy
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20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker (Contributor) 163 copies, 5 reviews
Granta 108: Chicago (Contributor) 130 copies, 2 reviews
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic (Contributor) 101 copies, 2 reviews
Granta 114: Aliens (Contributor) 91 copies, 1 review
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists (Contributor) 67 copies, 3 reviews
Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (Contributor) 66 copies, 3 reviews
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their… (Contributor) 65 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals,… (Contributor) 63 copies
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Canonical name
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Mengestu, Dinaw
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Date of birth
1978
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Gender
male
Nationality
Ethiopia
USA
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Birthplace
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
Peoria, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Education
Georgetown University (BA | English)
Columbia University (MFA | Fiction)
Occupations
writer
journalist
teacher
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Agents
Organizations
Awards and honors
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007)
The New Yorker "20 Under 40" (2010)
New York Public Library Young Lions Award Finalist (2008)
National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" (2007)
MacArthur Fellowship (2012)
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