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Dinaw Mengestu

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Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Lannan Literary Award, and received a "5 under 35" Award from the National Book Foundation. His first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, was named a New York Times Notable Book and awarded the Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among numerous other honors. He lives with his wife and son in Paris.

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Standalone Fiction

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

How to Read the Air

All Our Names

Someone Like Us

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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