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Dinaw Mengestu

DINAW MENGESTU is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: All Our Names, How to Read the Air, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. 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.
Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us
A novel
Dinaw Mengestu
Hardcover
Jul 30, 2024
All Our Names
All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu
Paperback
Jan 06, 2015
Grades 9-12
How to Read the Air
How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu
Paperback
Oct 04, 2011
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
Paperback
Feb 05, 2008
Grades AP/IB

Books

Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us
A novel
Dinaw Mengestu
Hardcover
Jul 30, 2024
All Our Names
All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu
Paperback
Jan 06, 2015
Grades 9-12
How to Read the Air
How to Read the Air
Dinaw Mengestu
Paperback
Oct 04, 2011
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu
Paperback
Feb 05, 2008
Grades AP/IB

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