Dinaw Mengestu

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Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1978. He left Ethiopia when he was two years old, and was raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. in English from Georgetown University, and his MFA in fiction from Columbia University.

He has written for Rolling Stone on the war in Darfur, and for Jane Magazine on the conflict in Northern Uganda. [1] and Harper's.

[edit] Works

His début novel The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears was published in the USA in March 2007 by Penguin Riverhead (ISBN 1594489408).

It was published in the UK as Children of the Revolution in May 2007 by Jonathan Cape (ISBN 9780224079310) and won the 2007 Guardian First Book Award. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fiction Fellowship, the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35 Award," the Prix du Meilleur Premier Roman Etranger in France, and a 2006 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears was a 2007 New York Times Notable Book, and was chosen as one of the ten best novels of 2007 by Amazon.com. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages.