Maaza Mengiste

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What Wikipedia says

Maaza Mengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American writer. She published two novels, Beneath the Lion's Gaze (2010) and The Shadow King (2019), which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2026.

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