Naaŋɔ | female |
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Country of citizenship | United States of America, Ethiopia |
Date of birth | 1971 |
Place of birth | Addis Ababa |
Languages spoken, written or signed | English |
Writing language | English |
Occupation | writer, university teacher, novelist |
Field of work | literary activity, belletristic literature |
Employer | Queens College |
Educated at | New York University |
Award received | Fulbright Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship |
Nominated for | Booker Prize |
Official website | https://maazamengiste.com |
Personal pronoun | L484 |
Maaza Mengiste (dɔgum yuunɛ de la 1974), a means de la Ethiopian-American gɔngulesa. A gɔnɔ la asi'a de la 'Beneath the lion gaze (2010) la The Shadow King (2019). Ba yuum lagum loose a gɔnɔ la zo'e zo'e pa'asɛ 2020 yuunɛ gɔnɔ wɔ'ɔrɛ ti ba yi'ira ti 'Booker Prize' la puan.
Ba yuum dɔgɛ Mengiste la Addis Ababa, Ethiopia amaa n yuum ta paɛ yuuma anaasi la, ti a yuum yese tiŋa la puan saŋa sɛka ti zɛberɛ yuum sige Ethiopia tiŋa puan la, ti a yire duma yuum zɔ yese Ethiopia tiŋa la puan. A bumbilemi la, a kɔ'ɔm kɛ'ɛra la Nigeria, Kenya la United States. Pooren a yuun kiŋɛ la Italy ta dɛna 'Fulbright scholar' yuun to'e sɛtifiketi n de MFA degree in creative writing' New York University la puan
Mengiste digesɛ gɔnɔ n de yelemɛŋerɛ la si'a n dagi yelemɛŋerɛ yɛsera nɛreba n kini sore bii basɛ ba tisi gee ta ki'ira tinsesi yɛla, Ethiopia tiŋa zɛberɛ la, la nɛresɛba n ni yakɛ sub-Saharan paara Europe tiŋa la mɛlesa se'em. A tuunɛ la tole nɛŋa paɛ la The New York Times, The New Yorker, Granta, Lettre International, Enkare Review, Callaloo, The Granta Anthology of the African Short Story (ti Helen Habila demese),. New Daughters of Africa (Margaret Busby demese) gee ti walesi sɛka n BBC Radio 4 me muulɛ di yele.
Mengiste 2010 yuunɛ gɔnɔ Beneath The Lion's gaze - tɔgeri la buuri diyima n nyɛ mɛlesegɔ gee zɛgera ti ba ta'am vɔna Ethiopia tiŋa zɛberɛ se'ere n yuun ka'asɛ ziim sansɛka la - a gɔŋɔ la yuun pa'asɛ la nɛresabelega tiŋa gɔnsunɔ pia (10) la ti tigere sɛka yu'urɛ n de The Guardalian yuun loe ti ba lerege a iŋɛ French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, la Swedish tɔgum puan la
2011 yuunɛ wɔ'ɔrɛ la ti ba yi'ira ti 'Dayton letirary Peace Prize' la, a yuun ze'ele paɛ ba'asegɔ me gee ti Flaherty-Dunnan yia gɔŋɔ wɔ'ɔrɛ la me, a yuun di mi'a mɛ , yɛsera la sɛla ti ba yi'ira ti NAACP fɔɔra wɔ'ɔrɛ la 'Indies Choice Book Award in Adult Debut. 2013 yuunɛ la puan a yuun de la 'world literature Today's Puterbaugh Fellow' . A de se'em n pa'asɛ gɔngulesereba n de E. L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, la Edith Wharton puan
A yuun gulesɛ a gɔnseko n pa'asɛ buyi, The Shadow Kongo (2019) yɛsera la sansɛka ti Mussolini yuun duma yuun kiŋɛ ta to'e Ethiopia tiŋa waabe, 1935 yuunɛ la puan tari niisum wa'am pɔgesi n de sogɛpa bii pɛɛntiireba vom puan ti la yuun dɛna la sɛla n ka tabelɛ iŋɛ Nɛresabelega tiŋa tuusum puan. Alex Clark yuun yele di mɛ The Guardalian la puan yeti "la de la sɔsesɛka n de tusɛka tari vuurɛ - itegɔ zo'e zo'e n boi di puan.
Fulbright Fellowship, Italy, 2010–2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, Shortlist, 2010 Beneath the Lion's Gaze' ti ba yuun dikɛ pa'adɛ gɔnseto n ani suŋa gaŋe za'a 2010 yuunɛ la puan. Christian Science Monitor, 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Fiction Runner-up, 2011 Beneath the Lion's Gaze named one of "The 10 Best Contemporary African Books". The Guardian, 2012 Puterbaugh Fellow, 2013 National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship, 2018 - Prose Creative Capital Award, Literary Fiction, 2019 The Bridge Book Award - American Academy in Rome, US Embassy to Italy, Casa delle Letterature di Roma, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, Center for Fiction - Rome, 2019 Literaturhaus - Writers in Residence, 2022 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Literature Award Winner, 2020 Booker Prize Shortlist, 2020 Edgar Awards Short Story Prize, Winner, 2021 Premio Gregor von Rezzori, Winner, 2021 New York Public Library Cullman Fellow, 2021–2022[39] Guggenheim fellowship 2022
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