Monday, April 22, 2013

Bewketu Seyoum: Collection of poems

 

Bewketu Seyoum is a young Ethiopian writer from Gojjam, northwest of Addis Ababa. He studied psychology at Addis Ababa University and published his first collection of poems, Nwari Alba Gojowoch (Unmanned Houses) in 2000, a year after graduating. (ESAT video) Read more…

Since then, he has published two further poetry collections and two novels, and has narrated short stories on CD. In 2008 he received the best young writer award of Ethiopia. Some of his poetry has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation (The Big Green Issue, 2008) and Callaloo (2011). Read more…
Source: Poetry Parnassus

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