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Maaza Mengiste


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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio,and Lettre International, among other places. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Both her fiction and nonfiction examine the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile, and consider the intersections of photography and violence. She was a writer on the social-activist documentary film, Girl Ris ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 19,655 ratings · 2,731 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors
The Shadow King
3.65 avg rating — 14,949 ratings — published 2019 — 45 editions
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze
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The Writer's Library: The A...
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The Granta Book of the Afri...
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Addis Ababa Noir
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L'ascaro. Una storia antico...
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Freeman's. Amore
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“When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze
tags: destiny, god, god-s-will
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“We must not be anything other than what we are.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze
tags: identity, identity-politics, self
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“what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave.”
― Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
tags: bone, grave, memory, muscles
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