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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.
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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
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was born in Bodaa village, near 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 is an Ethiopian equivalent of Latin.
He also helped the family by caring for cattle. He was still very young when he began to write plays