Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu | |
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Dinaw Mengestu in March 2014 | |
| Born | June 30, 1978 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Occupation | Novelist, professor of creative writing |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Georgetown University (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
| Literary movement | Realism, postmodernism |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellow, 5 under 35 honoree |
Dinaw Mengestu (ዲናው መንግስቱ) (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian American novelist and writer. In addition to three 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 Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications.
He is the Program Director of Written Arts at Bard College. In 2007 the National Book Foundation named him a "5 under 35" honoree. Since his first book was published in 2007, he has received numerous literary awards, and was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2012.