Contributor

Maaza Mengiste

Contributor

Maaza Mengiste

Ethiopia United States

Maaza Mengiste is the author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and a recipient of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Literature. It was named a Best Book of 2019 by New York Times, NPR, Time, Elle, and other publications....

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, her debut, was selected by the Guardian as one of the ten best contemporary African books. Maaza has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, DAAD, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the Fulbright Scholar Program.

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Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste

Articles by Maaza Mengiste

The Act of Naming

Dispatch from Florence’s Festival degli Scrittori

The World Between: Writing from Ethiopia and Italy

from “Etenesh”