Skip to main content

Words Without Borders Logo

Words Without Borders Monagram
—
Discover by Country
—
Discover by Theme
—
Discover by Contributor
—
Surprise Me!
Read
Learn
Events
About
Follow Us
Go to instagram
Go to twitter
Go to facebook
Go to youtube
Read
—
Surprise Me!
Discover by Country
—
Discover by Theme
—
Discover by Contributor
—
Learn
Events
About
Outdated Browser

For the best experience using our website, we recommend upgrading your browser to a newer version or switching to a supported browser.

More Information

Contributor

David DeGusta

Contributor

David DeGusta

United States

David DeGusta is a writer and translator from California. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received the Henfield Prize in Fiction. Previously, he was a paleoanthropologist in Ethiopia. His work on this translation was supported in part by a MacDowell fellowship.

Articles by David DeGusta

A photo of the wing of an Ethiopian Airlines airplane.
Photo by Wolf T on Pexels.. Public Domain.
Special Flight 709
By Baalu Girma
Soon after publishing his subversive novel Oromay in 1983, Ethiopian writer Baalu Girma disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is widely believed to have been murdered by the Derg regime. Often described as an Ethiopian classic, Oromay is now…
Translated from Amharic by David DeGusta & Mesfin Felleke Yirgu