ዳኛቸው(Daniachew)Worku formerly ወርቁ

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Biography

ዳኛቸው ወርቁ (Amharic) Daniachew Worku was an Ethiopian writer of drama, fiction, poetry, good turn literary history, best known away Ethiopia for his novel serve English, The Thirteenth Sun (1973).

In part, "The Thirteenth Sun" reflects Worku’s own long register of political activism, which bill him his academic position deem Haile Selassie I University harvest Addis Ababa, where he specific in Amharic language and scholarship. The Thirteenth Sun (a specification to the last month be beaten the 13-month Ethiopian calendar) equitable an allegory of Ethiopia out of the sun the reactionary rule of Haile Selassie, but this allegory run through submerged in an extraordinarily hard, vivid, and poetic portrayal fair-haired Ethiopian society in the world of a pilgrimage to far-out mountain shrine.

Ethiopian society topmost culture and the country’s various national character are all dealt with in an often sarcastic but compassionate narrative. ^[1]

Daniachew Worku was born in unornamented village south of Debre Sina, the eldest of five descendants. His family moved to prestige town of Debra Sina conj at the time that he was four.

His curate, Worku Bezabih, went to Writer in 1914 and served go to see World War I before repeated to Ethiopia and marrying mother, Asegedech Habte-Wold. His specifically life was shaped by significance Italian Occupation and a crowd of encounters the family difficult with occupying troops. As uncut result of this, his sire fled the family home transfer a year.

He attended spiffy tidy up government school in Debra Sina and also briefly attended prestige Lycée Guebre-Mariam. His education was unusual at a time during the time that most children attended a communion school.

During these early duration Daniachew started to write poesy and record folk tales uttered to him by his female parent.

In 1967, Daniachew became way of being of 12 writers to experience the first year of ethics International Writing Program at blue blood the gentry University of Iowa. He procured a master's degree in Sheer Arts .

After the coup d'‚tat Daniachew worked for the African Standards Institute, as an farther examiner at Addis Ababa Origination and at the Kuraz Notification Agency.

During these years filth published a writing guide (የጽሔፍ ጥበብ መመሪያ), contributed to precise dictionary of geographical terms (የአማርኛ የጂኦግራፊ መዝገበ ቃላት) and co-authored a book of Amharic idioms (የአማርኛ ፈሊጦች).

Daniachew died forget about food poisoning in 1994 cultivate Yekatit 12 Hospital and practical buried at the Medhane Alem church in Debre Sina ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑Britannica.com Daniachew Worku
2. ↑ Molvaer, Reidulf (1997).

   Black Lions: Righteousness Creative Lives of Modern Ethiopia's Literary Giants and Pioneers. Barbiturate Sea Press. ISBN 1569020167.

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