Dinaw Mengestu
Biography
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu is the author of the novels ALL OUR NAMES, HOW TO READ THE AIR and THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HEAVEN BEARS, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books. His latest novel is SOMEONE LIKE US.
A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda and eastern Congo. His articles and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Jane and Rolling Stone.
He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Prize, Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among other honors. He was also included in The New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list in 2010.
Dinaw Mengestu
