![]() Haddis Alemayehu fought during the Italian-Ethiopian war for colonialism (1935–36) until he was captured and sent to the Island of Ponza in the western Mediterranean and then to the island of Lipari, near Sardinia. In the early 1930s Haddis returned to Gojjam and worked as a customs clerk and school headmaster before moving to a teaching position at Debre Markos. He wrote his first play during this period, YeHabeshan yewedehuala Gabcha ( The marriage of Habesha and its backwardness) which displayed remarkably mature style. Later, he moved to Addis Ababa where he attended several schools, including the Swedish mission school (1925–1927) and later at the Tafari Makonnen School for further education of the secular sort (EthioView 12 December 2003). ![]() As a boy, he began his education within the system of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, studying at the monasteries of Debre Elias, Debre Werq, and Dima Giorgis where he finally graduated in Qine (type of extended Ethiopian Orthodox Church education). He was the son of an Orthodox priest, Abba Alemayehu Solomon and his mother, Desta Alemu. ![]() ![]() Haddis was born in the Endodam Kidane Miheret section, the lower parts of Debre Markos, in the Gojjam province. His Amharic novel Love to the Grave (Amharic: ፍቅር እስከ መቃብር Fəqər əskä Mäqabər, 1968) is considered a classic of modern Ethiopian literature. Haddis Alemayehu ( Amharic: ሐዲስ ዓለማየሁ 15 October 1910 – 6 December 2003) was an Ethiopian novelist and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia. ![]()
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