This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents an edited version, translation and analysis of hitherto unpublished Amharic poems (45 couplets), copied or written ca.

Ye Gulelew Sekaram in Amharic or 'The Drunkard of Gulelle' is officially recognized as the first modern short story in Amharic literature which was written and published around 1946 by Temesgen Gebre, ...