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About Afevork Ghevre Jesus
- Afäwarq Gäbrä Iyäsus (Amharic: ?? ? ??? ? ??? ? ????; misspelled in Italian: Afevork Ghevre-Jesus or Afeworq Gebre Iyesus; misspelled in English Afewark Gebre Iyasus; July 10, 1868 – September 25, 1947) was an Ethiopian writer, who wrote the first novel in Amharic, L?bb Wälläd Tarik (A Heart [better “Intellect”]-born Story), (Italian: Libb Wolled Tarik).
- Bahru Zewde writes, "Few people before or after him have demonstrated such superb mastery of the Amharic language.
- Few have ventured with such ingenuity into the hidden recesses of that language to come out with a wealth of vocabulary and idiom one scarcely thought the language possessed.
- Afäwarq is nonetheless a controversial figure for having supported the Italians during both the First and Second Italo-Abyssinian Wars.
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