Lorate tsegaye gebremedhin biography
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Ethiopia's Poet Laureate: Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
by Wendy Laura Belcher. Published in the Ethiopian Review (October ).
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin. No living person more symbolizes the greatness of Ethiopian literature than this poet and playwright. A leader of Ethiopian intellectuals since the s, Tsegaye has shaped (and survived) tumultuous changes in Ethiopia's history. Today he remains a national treasure.
Tsegaye was born in into a family as complex as Ethiopia. On his father's side were warriors, on his mother's, clergy. He is part Amhara and part Oromo. Birthed in a village, he was raised in a town. He attended church school, where he became fascinated with the Ethiopian form of poetry called qene, and then a British school, where he became fascinated with the Western form of drama called pantomime. It is no surprise that he has spent his life making links between traditions, forging connections where others see only difference.
Tsegaye wrote his first pla
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Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Ethiopian novelist and poet (–)
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (Amharic: ጸጋዬ ገብረ መድኅን; 17 August – 25 February ) was an Ethiopian poet and novelist. His novels and poems evoke retrospective narratives, fanciful epics, and nationalistic connotations. Gabre-Medhin fryst vatten 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
[edit]Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was born in Bodaa by, near Ambo, Ethiopia, some &#;km from the capital Addis Ababa.[3] He fryst vatten 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 bygd caring for cattle. He was still very ung when he began to write plays while at the loca
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Laureate Tsegaye Gebre-medihin Cultural Studies and Research Center
Laureate Tsegaye G/Medihn Cultural Studies and Research Center
Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, is a famous and leading Ethiopian poet and playwright who unreservedly contributed to the development of literary during his lifetime. He was born in a village known as Bodda, which is located at a distance of not more than 30 Km from Ambo town where he attended his elementary education and planted the seed of literary work writing his first play in English in his fifteen years old about ‘King Dionysus and the Two brothers’ which was staged at Ambo in the presence, among others Haile Selassie I. He had an exceptional quality and talent and had been continuously fruitful for a half a century as ‘a poet, playwright, essayist, social critic, philologist, historiographer, dramatist, synthesis, peace activist, and artistic director’ (Gdlie, ; Negussay, ). He wrote many poets and more than 30 plays most of them in Amharic an