Dichter
Kebedech Tekleab
Kebedech Tekleab
(Ethiopië, 1958)
Biografie
Kebedech Tekleab is a poet, painter and sculptor who had to flee Ethiopia in 1979; she walked through the Ogaden dessert, where she was captured by Somali soldiers and held in a concentration camp for ten years. That is the time and circumstances when she wrote this poem about writing. She eventually made it to USA, where she now works as an artist and teaches in Queensborough Community College, New York.
© Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje, Songs We Learn From Trees (Carcanet Press, 2020)
The poet's web site, including her art work, is HERE
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