1. Maaza Mengiste was born on 1974 and is an Ethiopian-American writer.
15 Facts About Maaza Mengiste
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Maaza Mengiste's novels include Beneath the Lion's Gaze and The Shadow King, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
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Maaza Mengiste spent the rest of her childhood in Nigeria, Kenya, and the United States.
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Maaza Mengiste later studied in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA degree in creative writing from New York University.
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Maaza Mengiste has published fiction and nonfiction dealing with migration, the Ethiopian revolution, and the plight of sub-Saharan immigrants arriving in Europe.
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Maaza Mengiste's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Granta, Lettre Internationale, Enkare Review, Callaloo, The Granta Anthology of the African Short Story, New Daughters of Africa, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Maaza Mengiste was runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a finalist for a Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, an NAACP Image Award, and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award in Adult Debut.
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The star of the novel is Maaza Mengiste's gorgeous writing, which makes The Shadow King nearly impossible to put down.
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Maaza Mengiste has a real gift for language; her writing is powerful but never florid, gripping the reader and refusing to let go.
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Maaza Mengiste serves on the advisory board of Warscapes, an independent online magazine that highlights current conflicts across the world, and is affiliated with the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights.
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Maaza Mengiste serves on the Board of Directors for Words Without Borders.
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Alongside Edwidge Danticat and Mona Eltahawy, Mengiste contributed a section to Richard E Robbins's 2013 documentary film Girl Rising on girls' education around the world for 10x10 Films, with narration by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Alicia Keys, and Cate Blanchett.
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Maaza Mengiste is currently a Professor of English at Wesleyan University.
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From January to June 2020, Maaza Mengiste was "writer in residence" of the Literaturhaus Zurich and the PWG Foundation in Zurich.
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The piece was titled "Maaza Mengiste is Reframing Ethiopian History".