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All Our Names was the most recently released book by Dinaw Mengestu, on March 4th, 2014.
Dinaw Mengestu Stats: The highest rated book by Dinaw Mengestu on Book Notification is All Our Names, a Standalone novel.
The most read book by Dinaw Mengestu on Book Notification is All Our Names, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / Children of the Revolution, a Standalone novel.
Below is a complete list of Dinaw Mengestu books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.
Dinaw Mengestu was born on June 30th, 1978 and is currently 45 years old. Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mengestu attended Georgetown University where he received a B.A. and Columbia University where he received an M.F.A.
Dinaw Mengestu is probably best known for his Standalone Novels. There are currently 3 novels available. The first standalone was released in 2007 with the novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / Children of the Revolution. The most recently released novel was All Our Names which was released in 2014. There are no upcoming standalone novels by Dinaw at this time.
Dinaw Mengestu was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012 for enriching people's knowledge of the little-studied African diaspora in America through the stories of immigrants whose memories are etched by their escape from violence in their home countries.
His work has appeared in many publications, including Harper’s, Granta, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal.
Mengestu's book, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / Children of the Revolution won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, in 2007.
Dinaw Mengestu books have also been nominated for multiple awards, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / Children of the Revolution was nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Best Published English Language Literary Work, in 2008. How to Read the Air was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Fiction, in 2011. All Our Names was nominated for the Kirkus Prize, Best Fiction Book, in 2014.
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