Ethiopia

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is the Ethiopian Caine Prize winner’s debut book of fiction.

“If we are to make our characters feel human and real, they require our care,” she says of her story “The Street Sweep.”

How Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje filled a gap in Ethiopian literature.

In her novels, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze and the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King, she explored the Ethiopian Revolution and the Italo-Abyssinian War. Now, with Project 3541, she is building a photography archive.

After two acclaimed books, the historical novelist is now looking to photography to chronicle Ethiopia.