Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam

Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam was born in 1936 into a Gurage family of the Chaha branch. He studied at University College in Addis Ababa, then in France, at Aix, and in the United States, at the University of California, Los Angeles. A translator by profession, he rendered Dickens into Amharic. His first novel, written in Chaha at the request of the linguist Wolf Leslau, appeared in English translation; he then wrote in English and in Amharic.

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• NovelThe AfersataSahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam · 1969Literature