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  Born in the highland village of Boda, near Ambo, west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Tsegaye began his education in the heady days in the immediate aftermath of the Italian Fascist occupation, which had ended in 1941. While still at elementary school he wrote a play called "King Dionysus and the Two Brothers" and saw it staged in the presence, among others, of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Tsegaye later attended the prestigious British Council-supported General Wingate school – named after British officer Orde Wingate, who had assisted Ethiopia's liberation in 1941. The budding playwright subsequently joined Addis Ababa's innovative Commercial school, where he won a scholarship to law school in Chicago.

His interests, however soon took him away from both commerce and law, which he considered as necessary, but soul-destroying pursuits. He turned instead to his true loves: poetry and the theatre. On retur

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Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Ethiopia 's greatest living playwright, and acclaimed Poet Laureate, died in Manhattan on 25 February.

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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye (born Aug, Boda, near Ambo, Ethiopia—died Febru, New York, New York, U.S.) was an Ethiopian playwright and poet, who wrote in Amharic and English.

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Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, is a famous and leading Ethiopian poet and playwright who unreservedly contributed to the development of literary during his.

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Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Ethiopia 's greatest living playwright, and acclaimed Poet Laureate, died in Manhattan on 25 February.

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A leader of Ethiopian intellectuals since the 1960s, Tsegaye has shaped (and survived) tumultuous changes in Ethiopia's history.