# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maaza-mengiste
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:03:01.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maaza-mengiste"
name: "Maaza Mengiste"
slug: "maaza-mengiste"
description: "Maaza Mengiste 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."
tagline: "Ethiopian-American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maaza_Mengiste_at_BookExpo_(05586).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.942387904066737
  historical:           14.29373866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://maazamengiste.com"
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    title: "Maaza Mengiste"
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    title: "Maaza Mengiste"
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    title: "Maaza Mengiste"
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    title: "Менгисте, Мааза"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump