Bewketu Seyoum
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Citizenship | Ethiopian |
Notable works | Mewtat ena Megbat Enkilf ena Edme Newari Alba Gojowoch Ke Amen Bashager |
Bewketu Seyoum (Ge'ez: በዕውቀቱ ስዩም) is an Ethiopian writer and poet from Debre Markos of Ethiopia. He studied psychology at Addis Ababa University and published his first collection of poems, Nwari Alba Gojowoch (Unmanned Cottage) in 2000, a year after graduating. Since then, he has published two further poetry collections and two novels, and has narrated short stories on CD. In 2008, he received the best young writer award of Ethiopia from the President. Some of his poetry has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, The Big Green Issue (2008), and Callaloo (2011).
Works[]
- Newari Alba Gojowoch (Ge'ez: ኗሪ አልባ ጎጆዎች) (Unmanned Houses), 2000
- Berari (Ge'ez: በራሪ ቅጠሎች) (Flying Leaves), 2004
- Yesat Dar Hasaboch (Ge'ez: የእሳት ዳር ሃሳቦች) (Fireside meditations), 2009
- In Search of Fat (Ge'ez: ሀሰሳ ስጋ), 2012
- Enkilf ena Edme (Ge'ez: እንቅልፍ እና እድሜ)
- Megbat ena Mewtat (Ge'ez: መግባት እና መውጣት)
- Ke Amen Bashager (Ge'ez: ከአሜን ባሻገር), 2015
- Yemaleda Dibab (Ge'ez: የማለዳ ድባብ), 2017
References[]
- Seyoum, Bewketu
- Bewketu Seyoum biography, Modern Poetry in Translation magazine
Categories:
- 21st-century poets
- Ethiopian poets
- Ethiopian novelists
- Addis Ababa University alumni
- 21st-century novelists
- Living people