Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste (an haife ta a shekara ta 1974) marubuciya ce Ba'amurkiya. Littattafanta sun haɗa da Beneath the Lion's Gaze (2010) da The Shadow King (2019), wanda aka zaba don kyautar 2020 ta Booker.

Maaza Mengiste
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Addis Ababa, 1971 (52/53 shekaru)
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka Habasha
Karatu
Makaranta	New York University (en)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	marubuci, university teacher (en) da Marubuci
Employers	Queens College (en)
Kyaututtuka	gani Fulbright Scholarship Guggenheim Fellowship  (2022)
Ayyanawa daga	gani [[Booker Prize (en) ]] (2020) : [[The Shadow King (en) ]]
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Tasowarta

An haifi Mengiste a birnin Addis Ababa na kasar Habasha, amma ta bar kasar tana da shekaru hudu a lokacin da danginta suka gudu daga juyin juya halin Habasha. Ta yi sauran yarinta a Najeriya, Kenya, da Amurka. Daga baya ta yi karatu a Italiya a matsayin Masaniyar Fulbright kuma ta sami digiri na MFA a fannin rubuce-rubucen kirkire-kirkire daga Jami'ar New York.

Kwarewar Sana'a

Mengiste ta buga tatsuniyoyi da suka shafi ƙaura, juyin-juya halin Habasha, da halin da baƙin haure ke ciki da suka isa Turai. Ayyukanta sun fito a cikin The New York Times, The New Yorker, Granta, Lettre Internationale, Enkare Review, Callaloo, The Granta Anthology of the African Short Story (edited by Helon Habila), New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby), kuma an watsa shi a gidan rediyon BBC 4.

Littafin labari na farko na Mengiste na 2010 na Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Zaki - labarin dangi da ke gwagwarmaya don tsira daga rikice-rikice da shekaru masu zubar da jini na juyin juya halin Habasha - an nada shi daya daga cikin 10 mafi kyawun littattafan Afirka na zamani ta The Guardian kuma an fassara shi zuwa Faransanci, Mutanen Espanya, 4] Fotigal, Jamusanci, Italiyanci, Yaren mutanen Holland, da Yaren mutanen Sweden. Ta kasance ta zo ta biyu don Kyautar Zaman Lafiya ta Adabi ta Dayton na 2011, kuma ɗan wasan ƙarshe don Kyautar Novel na Farko ta Flaherty-Dunnan, [8] lambar yabo ta NAACP, da lambar yabo ta Indies Choice Book of the Year Award in Adult Debut. A cikin 2013 ta kasance Fellow ɗin Adabin Duniya na Yau. Ta ƙidaya a cikin tasirinta E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, da Edith Wharton.