Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste (born 1971 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ) is an Ethiopian- American author.

Life

Mengiste lived in Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya, before coming to the United States. There closed the creative writing at New York University with a Master of Fine Arts. In 2010 she published her first novel Beneath the Lion 's Gaze, which was published in German in 2013.

Mengiste writes regularly for The New York Times, Lettre International, Granta magazine and the magazine Callaloo on issues related to the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974, on migrants and their fate in Europe. Human rights are also one of its themes. She is on the advisory board of the online magazine Wars capes and the children's charity Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights.

The author lives in New York City and is a visiting professor of creative writing at Queens College, City University of New York and a lecturer in Creative Writing at Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University in Princeton.

Awards and honors

  • Fulbright Scholar
  • Fellow of the Emily Harvey Foundation
  • Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
  • Fellow of the Prague Summer Program
  • Fellow at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York State
  • 2013: Puterbaugh Fellow of the magazine World Literature Today

Publications

  • Beneath the Lion 's Gaze. Norton, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-393-33888-1. German: Under the eyes of the lion. Novel, translated by Andreas Jandl. Publishing the Wunderhorn, Heidelberg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88423-400-6.
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