dinaw mengestu

Chika Unigwe and Dinaw Mengestu Join Imani Perry, Isabella Hammad, and Others at the 2026 Kweli International Literary Festival, November 14 to December 10

by Blessing Uwisike

News July 21, 2026

PEN America’s President Dinaw Mengestu Resigns Over Article on Jewish and Israeli Writers

by BRITTLE PAPER STAFF

Book News December 19, 2025

Ethiopian-American Novelist Dinaw Mengestu Elected President of PEN America

by Blessing Uwisike

News April 18, 2022

2 Ethiopian-American Novelists Awarded the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship: Maaza Mengiste and Dinaw Mengestu

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Features• News July 14, 2020

Dinaw Mengestu, Mia Couto, Laila Lalami & Others Featured in The Decameron Project, a Collection of COVID-19 Inspired Stories

by Brittle Paper

Features May 11, 2020

Your African Literary Horoscope: What To Read in May, Based on Your Star Sign

by Brittle Paper

Features• News August 19, 2019

Dinaw Mengestu’s Novel Picked by Barrack Obama for His Summer 2019 Reading List

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features• News March 20, 2018

What Is Happening at the Caine Prize?

by Brittle Paper