# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dinaw-mengestu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:20:41.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dinaw-mengestu"
name: "Dinaw Mengestu"
slug: "dinaw-mengestu"
description: "Dinaw Mengestu is an Ethiopian American novelist and writer. In addition to four novels, he has written for Rolling Stone on the war in Darfur, and for Jane Magazine on the conflict in northern Uganda. His writing has also appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dinaw_Mengestu_3041199.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.97
  momentum:             0.4829210836277975
  historical:           10.29870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "ديناو مينجيستو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%83"
    title: "Менгесту, Динау"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Dinaw Mengestu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinaw_Mengestu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3028276"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump