Author · Somalia
Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac “Gaarriye”
Died in 2012
Born in 1949 in Hargeisa, then in British Somaliland, he did his secondary studies at Sheikh and obtained a degree in biology at the Somali National University, at Lafoole college. A secondary-school teacher, he worked at the Academy of Culture in Mogadishu, then taught Somali literature at the National University. In 1976 he published the first description of Somali metrics and at the end of 1979 launched a chain of poems to which more than forty poets responded. He died in Oslo in 2012.
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