# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tsegaye-gabre-medhin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:59:28.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tsegaye-gabre-medhin"
name: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
slug: "tsegaye-gabre-medhin"
description: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was an Ethiopian poet and novelist. His novels and poems evoke retrospective narratives, fanciful epics, and nationalistic connotations. Gabre-Medhin is considered to be one of the most important Ethiopian novelists, along with Baalu Girma and Haddis Alemayehu. His books have been successful in commercial sales and in even academic theses. His works are solely based in Amharic and English."
tagline: "Ethiopian writer (1936-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tsegaye_Gabre-Medhin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-08-17"
deathDate: "2006-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.421492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ጸጋዬ ገብረ መድህን"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تسيجاى جبر مدهين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
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  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%AD_%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CF%81%CE%AD-%CE%9C%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD"
    title: "Τσεγκαγιέ Γκαμπρέ-Μεντίν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsegaye_Gabre-Medhin"
    title: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsegaye_Gabre-Medhin"
    title: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsegaye_Gabre-Medhin"
    title: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsegaye_Gabre-Medhin"
    title: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsegaye_Gabre-Medhin"
    title: "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin"
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    title: "Цэгайе Гэбрэ Мэдхын"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump