Tsegaye gabre-medhin biography books

  • His new book is a biography of the Ethiopian Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Soaring on Winged Verse: The Life of Ethiopian Poet-Playwright Tsegaye Gabre-.
  • Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was an Ethiopian poet and novelist.
  • This book is the official memoir of the late Ethiopian Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin.

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    Soaring On Winged Verse, The Life of Ethiopian Poet-Playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin - Softcover

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    This book is the official memoir of the late Ethiopian Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin. From 1951 to 1996, Tsegaye wrote close to 45 plays (including translations and adaptations) as well as a volume of poetry, Isat Woy Abeba (Blaze or Bloom), hailed among the most influential works in Amharic. Original in thought and provocative in content, Tsegaye s works probe into the tumultuous meeting spaces of traditional and modern values while critically examining assumptions of identity across generations. The memoir, completed posthumously by author Fasil Yitbarek, begins in the twilight years of Tsegaye s life in New York, as a collaborative effort between the author and the poet. It is a text that is culled from long interview sessions. Part of the book was completed after Tsegaye s death in February 2006 through extensive research done by family members, the author, and the edi

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    Soaring on Winged Verse: The Life of Ethiopian Poet-Playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin

    This book is the official memoir of the late Ethiopian Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin. From 1951 to 1996, Tsegaye wrote close to 45 plays (including translations and adaptations) as well as a volume of poetry, Isat Woy Abeba (Blaze or Bloom), hailed among the most influential works in Amharic. Original in thought and provocative in content, Tsegaye’s works probe into the tumultuous meeting spaces of ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ values while critically examining assumptions of identity across generations.

    The memoir, completed posthumously by author Fasil Yitbarek, begins in the twilight years of Tsegaye’s life in New York, as a collaborative effort between the author and the poet. It is a text that is culled from long interview sessions. Part of the book was completed after Tsegaye’s death in February 2006 through extensive research done by family members, the author, and the editor, both

  • tsegaye gabre-medhin biography books

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    Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin

    Ethiopian novelist and poet (1936–2006)

    Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (Amharic: ጸጋዬ ገብረ መድኅን; 17 August 1936 – 25 February 2006) was an Ethiopian poet and novelist. His novels and poems evoke retrospective narratives, fanciful epics, and nationalistic connotations. Gabre-Medhin is considered to be one of the most important Ethiopian novelists, along with Baalu Girma and Haddis Alemayehu.[citation needed] His books have been successful in commercial sales and in even academic theses. His works are solely based in Amharic and English.[1][2]

    Biography

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    Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was born in Bodaa village, nära Ambo, Ethiopia, some 120 km from the capital Addis Ababa.[3] He is an Oromo.[4] As many Ethiopian boys do, he also learned Ge'ez, the ancient language of the church, which fryst vatten an Ethiopian equivalent of Latin. He also helped the family by caring for boskap. He was still very young when he began to write