Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Āfeworq Gebre Īyesūs (Amharic: አፈ ፡ ወርቅ ፡ ገብረ ፡ ኢየሱስ ፡ ዘብሔረ ፡ ዘጌ?; Italian: Afevork Ghevre-Jesus; July 10, 1868 – September 25, 1947) was an Ethiopian writer, who wrote the first novel in Amharic, Libb Wolled Tarik (\"A Heart-born Story\"). 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. Afeworq is nonetheless a controversial figure for having supported the Italians during both the First and Second Italo-Abyssinian Wars."@en }
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- Afevork_Ghevre_Jesus abstract "Āfeworq Gebre Īyesūs (Amharic: አፈ ፡ ወርቅ ፡ ገብረ ፡ ኢየሱስ ፡ ዘብሔረ ፡ ዘጌ?; Italian: Afevork Ghevre-Jesus; July 10, 1868 – September 25, 1947) was an Ethiopian writer, who wrote the first novel in Amharic, Libb Wolled Tarik (\"A Heart-born Story\"). 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. Afeworq is nonetheless a controversial figure for having supported the Italians during both the First and Second Italo-Abyssinian Wars.".