Germachew Tekle Hawaryat

Germachew Tekle Hawaryat was born on 18 July 1915. His father, Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariam, an aristocrat raised in Russia, was the principal author of the 1931 constitution, the country's first, modelled on that of Meiji, and wrote the first play written in Amharic. The son, one of his eight children, was educated in Switzerland and served the state after Haile Selassie's restoration in 1941, notably as a diplomat. Besides his novel, he wrote a play about Emperor Tewodros and a history of the Romans. He died on 10 June 1987.

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• NovelArayaGermachew Tekle Hawaryat · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature