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Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu is the author of four novels: Someone Like Us (Knopf, 2024), All Our Names (Knopf, 2014), How to Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2007), all New York Times Notable Books. As a journalist, Mengestu has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. His articles and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, and Rolling Stone. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, Guardian First Book Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors. He was also included in The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list in 2010. His work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. He is the director of the Written Arts Program at Bard College and the director of the Center for Ethics and Writing.


Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

“PEN America’s defense and advocacy must be rendered vigorously and equitably, regardless of who sits in power.”
April 10, 2025  By Dinaw Mengestu
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