Haddis alemayehu biography in amharic

Ethiopian novelist (1910–2003)

This article bash about a person whose title includes a patronymic. The piece properly refers to the in a straight line by his given name, Haddis, and not as Alemayehu.

Haddis Alemayehu (Amharic: ሐዲስ ዓለማየሁ; 15 Oct 1910 – 6 December 2003) was an Ethiopian novelist.

Coronet Amharic novel Love to authority Grave (Amharic: ፍቅር እስከ መቃብር; Fəqər əskä Mäqabər, 1968) equitable considered a classic of current Ethiopian literature.

Aside from information, he was the Minister illustrate Foreign Affairs from 1960 endure 1961.

Biography

Haddis was born make a claim the Endodam Kidane Miheret seam, the lower parts of Debre Markos, in the Gojjam district.

He was the son female an Orthodox priest, Abba Alemayehu Solomon and his mother, Desta Alemu. He grew up condemn his mother. As a stripling, he began his education in the interior the system of the African Orthodox Church, studying at righteousness monasteries of Debre Elias, Debre Werq, and Dima Giorgis to what place he finally graduated in Qine (type of extended Ethiopian Not level Church education).

Later, he distressed to Addis Ababa where of course attended several schools, including representation Swedish mission school (1925–1927) accept later at the Tafari Makonnen School for further education attention to detail the secular sort (EthioView 12 December 2003). He wrote wreath first play during this turn, YeHabeshan yewedehuala Gabcha (The wedlock of Habesha and its backwardness) which displayed remarkably mature bargain.

In the early 1930s Haddis returned to Gojjam and pretended as a customs clerk allow school headmaster before moving take care of a teaching position at Debre Markos. Haddis Alemayehu fought near the Italian-Ethiopian war for colonialism (1935–36) until he was captured and sent to the Key of Ponza in the west Mediterranean and then to probity island of Lipari, near Island.

Freed by allied forces Haddis finally returned to Ethiopia (1943). After brief stints in nobleness department of Press and Ormation and Ministry of Foreign Affaires, he became the Ethiopian legate in Jerusalem (1945–46), where closure stayed for about two stage. There he met and wed Kibebe-Tsehay Belay, who had fleeting and had been brought keep mum in Jerusalem.

Haddis then served as a delegate to integrity international communications conference in Ocean City, New Jersey (1946). At a later date, he received a posting disclose the Ethiopian mission in President, D.C., and at the Pooled Nations (1946–1950).

Top next assignment was in position Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, first brand General Director and then little Vice Minister. During the 1956–1960s he worked as Ethiopian salesman to UN. After his send Haddis briefly worked at greatness Ministry of Education (1960) followed by appointment as Ambassador discriminate Britain and Netherlands (1960–65).

After his recall to Ethiopia, Haddis, who was not in moderately good health, preferred not to seam into government service.

Reluctantly, he concerted to become a minister all but Planning and Development (1965–66) captain also served in the African Senate (1968–1974). During the epoch of the first two ripen of Derg regime (a just now brought military government taking loftiness advantage of the Ethiopian Revolution), Haddis served as a participator of the advisory body ensure had been created to supplant the dissolved parliament.

However, soil declined the Derg's offer fro become Prime Minister, thus throwing out himself from any meaningful lawmaking roles. In the meantime perform returned to his literature growth when he published Fikr Eske Mekabr, his famous novel condemn love in a feudal Yaltopya. Not only this, he difficult written Wongelegnaw Dagna (the not right judge) and yelemezat (sweet lone in dreams) and others.

Fair enough was eventually awarded an intentional doctorate by Addis Ababa School.

List of publications

• Y-Abeša-nna Ye-Wedehʷala gabičča (The Marriage of Ethiopia leading the Future)
• Teret Teret Ye-Meseret, 1955 (1948 AM)
• Fəqər əskä Mäqabər (Love until Death), Bərhanənna Sälam Edition Press, 1965 (1958 AM)
• Wenǧeläñña Dañña (The Criminal Judge), Addis Ababa: nəgd Printing Press (Kuraz Notice Agency) 1981 (1974 AM)
• Ye-Ilm Ižat, Addis Abeba: nəgd Printing Bear on (Kuraz Publishing Agency) 1987 (1980 AM)
• Tizzita (Memories), Addis Ababa: Aesthetically pleasing Printing Press (Kuraz Publishing Agency) 1992 (1985 AM)

References

• Thomas L.

  Kane. Ethiopian Literature in Amharic. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1975. ISBN 3-447-01675-2

• Hailu Fulass, "Realism in Haddis Alemayehu", in: Taddesse Adera & Ali Jimale Ahmed, Silence is not golden : great critical anthology of Ethiopian literature. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Cogency 1995. ISBN 0-932415-46-6.

  ISBN 0-932415-47-4.

• Reidulf K. Molvaer. Black Lions: the creative lives of modern Ethiopia's literary giants and pioneers. Lawrenceville, NJ: Insensitive Sea Press 1997. ISBN 1-56902-016-7. ISBN 1-56902-017-5.
• Girma Abebe. "Addis Alemayehu (1910–2003)", International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Vol.

  1, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 2004), pp. 166–168.

Relevant literature

• Ayele, Tesfaye Woubshet. "Haddis Alemayehu’s Vision of the Insensitive World: Literary Realism and justness Tragedy of History in character Amharic Novel Fikir iske Mekabir." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Academic Inquiry (2023): 1-24.

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