The restitution of dignity: Photography, resistance and her-stories in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King’, in: Philosophy of Photography, 17.1 (2026) online first: doi.org/10.1386/pop_...

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#MaazaMengiste is truly amazing, beautiful inside and out, as well as a fantastically talented writer. Her talk this evening was insightful and moving.

Watch out for her next novel: "A Brief History of Small Deaths" ✨️

Once again, @warsan_shire is right on the money (you're reading the words here of our future Poet Laureate): https://x.com/MaazaMengiste/status/665406547346989058/photo/1

🔗 Check my blog for more details on the titles, authors, synopses, and the list of awards

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Hirut stares at the sunlit vista
pressing itself
through the swinging doors.
As they start to close,
she holds her breath.
Addis Ababa shrinks to a sliver
and slips out of the room.

- The Shadow King,
Maaza Mengiste
#TheShadowKing
#MaazaMengiste

@jiminhanwriter @PKhakpour @Lvandenberg @tylachelleco @PeninaRoth (you would’ve hated this hotel rm Penina! It’s so small :) @kamuleosaurus @katehopeday @mshatter1 @mscholesyoung @MaazaMengiste @mariskreizman @MarieMyungOkLee @mkimarnold @lillydancyger @olivasdan @NK_Adjei

Go: tweet about 3 indigenous/ POC writers who (regardless of where published) need and deserve MAJOR BOOST.
@MaazaMengiste
@jasminnemendez
@heyteebs
Please retweet (and follow these incredibly talented, thoughtful, critical, entertaining, brilliant writers).

TextART • Booker-Literaturpreis

Buch & Graphik

The cover for 'The Shadow King' from shortlisted author @MaazaMengiste was bound by Lori Sauer: The overall thinking was to use shifts of light and shade and design motifs of flying/falling.

@DesignerbookUK | RT @TheBookerPrizes

"Diary: Ethiopia’s Long War"
@MaazaMengiste https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n03/maaza-mengiste/diary

Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 24

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #September24 #AnnPatchett #MaazaMengiste #TaNehisiCoates #MartinAmis #MLRio #RichardPowers #booksky

I’ve managed to miss hearing @MaazaMengiste in two cities now but at least ran into her at the #BBF2019 bar. Hopefully 3rd time will be the charm, because SHADOW KING is beautiful

Sponsored > DISQUIET International Literary Program invites you to join novelist and essayist Maaza Mengiste online for THE CRAFT OF REVISION, Saturday, February 20. Details on our website:
http://disquietinternational.org/online-events/ @MaazaMengiste with @DisquietILP

Usually I jump from one book right into the next, but I think I am going to savor The Shadow King by @MaazaMengiste for a while. I want to keep the sound of her voice in my head.

Me and @MaazaMengiste taking a break from teaching. You can tell I like my job: I got the big silly grin going. http://t.co/E2dcCzdC