Maaza Mengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American writer. Her novels include Beneath the Lion's Gaze (2010) and The Shadow King (2019), which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.[1]
^"The 2020 Booker Prize shortlist". The Booker Prizes. 15 September 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
MaazaMengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American writer. Her novels include Beneath the Lion's Gaze (2010) and The Shadow King (2019), which was shortlisted...
a "book of quiet beauty and tragedy". In a review for The Guardian, MaazaMengiste praised its narrative details of colonialism and depiction of psychologically...
migration, using irony and humour to respond to their situation. Novelist MaazaMengiste has described Gurnah's works by saying: "He has written work that is...
Jhalak Prize in April 2019. In December 2020, in a conversation with MaazaMengiste published by Literary Hub, Forna announced that her essay collection...
including a staff member of the British museum. Ethiopian novelist MaazaMengiste writes in The Guardian that Alemayehu was kidnapped. While staying at...
Retrieved 28 May 2020. Omoniyi, Tosin (2017-11-11). "Helon Habila, MaazaMengiste named The New American Voices award judges - Premium Times Nigeria"...
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on the Gaza Strip. In February 2024, writers including Roxane Gay, MaazaMengiste and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah condemned PEN America for its silence regarding...
short period of existence, it has published Taiye Selasi, Junot Díaz, MaazaMengiste, Zukiswa Wanner, Namwali Serpell, Richard Ali, Lidudumalingani, Jericho...
Also reviewing The Shadow King, The Times wrote, "The eloquence of MaazaMengiste's tribute to the forgotten women warriors who defended Ethiopia from...
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Shadow King may refer to: The Shadow King (novel), a 2019 novel by MaazaMengiste The Shadow King (film), a 2011 film project by Henry Selick cancelled...
characters—Elias Cole, Adrian Lockheart, and Kai Mansaray—intersect. MaazaMengiste wrote in The New York Times: "Forna's first work of fiction, 'Ancestor...
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Calligrapher's Daughter Finalist 2011 Chang-rae Lee The Surrendered Winner MaazaMengiste Beneath the Lion's Gaze Runner-up Dinaw Mengestu How to Read the Air...
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" has received an average of 3.75 stars on Goodreads. According to MaazaMengiste, “Katherine Vaz writes with piercing, startling beauty: every sentence...
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