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Ethiopia

November 6, 2021

Meron Hadero’s Collection of Stories Set for 2022

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

August 24, 2021

AKO Caine Prize Winner Meron Hadero on Language, Musicality, and How “Writing Asks for Empathy”

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

April 2, 2021

The Making of Songs We Learn from Trees, the First Anthology of Amharic Poetry in English

How Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje filled a gap in Ethiopian literature.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Songs We Learn from Trees. From Carcanet Press.

January 16, 2021

Cover Story: Maaza Mengiste’s Chronicles of Ethiopia

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.
Otosirieze
Maaza Mengiste by Nina Subin.

January 16, 2021

Maaza Mengiste Is on the January 2021 Cover of Open Country Mag

After two acclaimed books, the historical novelist is now looking to photography to chronicle Ethiopia.
Otosirieze
Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Maaza Mengiste

November 6, 2021

Meron Hadero’s Collection of Stories Set for 2022

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

August 24, 2021

Meron Hadero. Credit: Meron Hadero.

AKO Caine Prize Winner Meron Hadero on Language, Musicality, and How “Writing Asks for Empathy”

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

April 2, 2021

Songs We Learn from Trees. From Carcanet Press.

The Making of Songs We Learn from Trees, the First Anthology of Amharic Poetry in English

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

January 16, 2021

Maaza Mengiste by Nina Subin.

Cover Story: Maaza Mengiste’s Chronicles of Ethiopia

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.
Otosirieze

January 16, 2021

Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste Is on the January 2021 Cover of Open Country Mag

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

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