Daniachew worku biography for kids
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Dagnachew Worku
By Zewge Abate (A.A.U)
(First appeared in "The Reporter" on August 22, 2001)
Ethiopia, as a country of ancient history, has a long tradition of literature. Much of its pre-twentieth century literature is dominantly characterized by translation with a taste of originality. Moreover, Ethiopian literature took much time before dealing with the socio-politico-economic conditions that had been prevalent in the country. The country embraced Christianity during the fourth century A.D. since when Christian morality hasbeen dominating the literary scene.
For ages, therefore, our literature had to embark on a smooth, unbroken move. In fact, the static nature of Ethiopian literature st
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Biography
Daniachew Worku was born in the village of Wiha-Teggeb in 1936. His father had lived in France for many years, even fighting for the French in World War I, before returning to Ethiopia. Worku had a good education and trained to be a teacher. He started writing early, first poems and then plays and articles for the press. In 1969, he won a scholarship to the Writers’ Workshop in Iowa, and obtained a Master in Fine arts, as well as writing several stories in English. On return to Ethiopia, he taught at the University of Addis Ababa for a year and then started work on his first novel, Adefris. This was self-published but was fairly successful. He wrote his second novel – The Thirteenth Sun – in English. After that he continued to write and teach, though nothing further has been published in English. He died of food poisoning in 1994, leaving behind a long manuscript.
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Daniachew Worku – His motives to wr
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The Thirteenth Sun
Description
DANIACHEW WORKU is already well-known for his writing in Amharic. He has published fyra plays, a novel,short stories and poetry in Ethiopia. He was born in 1936. After training as a teacher he studied at the University College of Addis Ababa and the University of lowa. He has taught in schools and at Addis Ababa University.
A young radical fryst vatten unwillingly taking his dying nobleman father on a pilgrimage to an Ethiopian shrine bya moutain lake. The journey is not just a search for a cure but also a gods attempt to heal the breach between age and youth in this family. This relationship fryst vatten set against the background of the conflict between the ancient Christianity of Ethiopia and the superstition of the people. The young man and his half sister are dran together bygd an ideal of freedom, but this imagined incest drives him towards another girl. This deeply symbolic novel evokes the rik contrasts of present-day Ethiopia. Like Faulkner, Daniachew Worku is