Abe Gubegna

Abe Gubegna was born on 1 July 1933 in Korench Abo, in the district of Achefer, near Bahir Dar, into a peasant family of eleven children. He spent twelve years in Church schools, where he learned Ge'ez and qene, then made his way to Addis Ababa. A journalist at the Ministry of Information, he left the civil service to write and was harassed several times over his books. Invited to the United States in 1973, the third writer from his country to be so, he held the American government to be a supporter of the emperor and said so bluntly. He died in 1980.

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• NovelDefianceAbe Gubegna · 1975Literature