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IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: DINAW MENGESTU - AUTHOR AND WINNER OF VILCEK PRIZE

By Greg Siskind

The Vilcek Foundation is the organization that has as its mission raising awareness the contributions of immigrants to the arts and sciences. The foundation is honoring authors in connection with a panel it is hosting next week in New York entitled "The New Vernacular: Immigrant Authors in American Literature." At the program, the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature will be awarded to Ethiopian-born Dinaw Mengestu. Over the next few days, I'll also be honoring the finalists. Dinaw Mengestu is a novelist and has also reported on Africa for publications like Rolling Stone, Harper's and the Wall Street Journal....

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).