Haddis Alemayehu (15 October 1910 - ), also transliterated Hadis Alamayahu, was a Foreign Minister

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ethiopia)

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 and novelist from Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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. His Amharic novel (Love to the Grave, 1968) is considered a classic of modern Ethiopian literature.

He was born in the Endor Kidane Miheret section of the city of Debre Marqos

Debre Marqos

Debre Marqos is a city and woreda in east-central Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of , and an elevation of 2,446 meters. The city is named Debre Marqos after its principal church, which was constructed in 1869 and dedicated to St....

, the son of an Orthodox priest, Abba Alemayehu Solomon. As a boy, he began his education within the system of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, studying at the monasteries of Debre Elias, Debre Werq

Debre Werq

Debre Werq is a town in western Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2489 meters above sea level. It is known for its church and a hilltop monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, around which the community...

, and Dima

Dima, Gojjam

Dima is a village in west-central Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2076 meters above sea level. It is one of three settlements in Enemay woreda....

. Later, he moved to Addis Ababa where he enrolled at the Swedish Mission and later at the Tafari Makonnen School for further education of the secular sort (EthioView December 12, 2003). He was eventually awarded an honorary doctorate by Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University is a university in Ethiopia. It was originally named "University College of Addis Ababa" at its founding, then renamed for the former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I in 1962, receiving its current name in 1975.Although the university has six of its seven campuses within...

.

List of publications

(The Marriage of Ethiopia and the Future), 1955 (1948 AM

Ethiopian calendar

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) (Love to the Grave), Printing Press, 1965 (1958 AM) (The Criminal Judge), Addis Abeba: Printing Press (Kuraz Publishing Agency) 1981 (1974 AM), Addis Abeba: Printing Press (Kuraz Publishing Agency) 1987 (1980 AM) (Memories), Addis Abeba:Artistic Printing Press (Kuraz Publishing Agency) 1992 (1985 AM)

External links

• All Africa
• FiQir Iske MeQabir - An Ethiopian Masterpiece, a book review by Haeran Fisseha in Seleda Journal website (Vol. II, Issue VII, January 2001).
• "Grateful, forever (A tribute to a literary giant - Haddis Alemayehu)", a poem by Kiros Berhane (December, 2003), in Meskot Online Literary Journal.
• http://ethio-press.tripod.com/id4.html
• Amharic text of (Love to the Grave)
• Deconstructive Discourse of Content as Reflected in Haddis Alemayehu’s Fikir Eske Mekabir, MA thesis