Beyan Negash

Beyan Negash is an Eritrean writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the intersections of history, literature, exile, language, and political memory. He has contributed to Eritrean public discourse for more than two decades, including through Awate, and writes across literary criticism, historical inquiry, and contemporary political analysis.

He is the author of I & Eye: The Mirror, Exile & the Nile, a novel concerned with displacement, memory, and the enduring relationship between personal experience and collective history.

His Farajat column, Crossings, examines the movement of ideas across languages, generations, geographical boundaries, and intellectual traditions, with particular attention to the Horn of Africa.