Editing Amharic (section)

==Literature==
{{See also|Amharas#Culture|List of Amharic writers}}
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| caption1          = {{font|size=100%|text=[[Baalu Girma]] (1939–1984), regarded as one of the greatest novelists, journalists and critiques in Ethiopia, with which one of his six works such as ''[[Oromay|The End]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Teweldebirhan|first=Seble
|url=https://www.ezega.com/News/NewsDetails/3442/Remembering-Baalu-Girma|title=Remembering Baalu Girma
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| caption2          = {{font|size=100%|text=[[Haddis Alemayehu]] (1910–2003), foreign minister and novelist, author of ''[[Love to the Grave]]'', considered the greatest novel in contemporary Ethiopian literature.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ayele|first=Tesfaye
|title=Haddis Alemayehu's Vision of the Old World: Literary Realism and the Tragedy of History in the Amharic Novel Fikir iske Mekabir|journal=[[Cambridge University]]|date=1 September 2023|volume=10
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|pages=353–376
|doi=10.1017/pli.2023.26
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[[Haddis Alemayehu]] (1910–2003), foreign minister and novelist, including author of ''[[Love to the Grave]]'', considered the greatest novel in Ethiopian literature.The oldest surviving examples of written Amharic date back to the reigns of the 14th century [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] [[Amda Seyon I]] and his successors, who commissioned a number of poems known as "{{Lang|am|የወታደሮች መዝሙር}}" ([[Soldier songs]]) glorifying them and their troops. There is a growing body of literature in Amharic in many genres. This literature includes government proclamations and records, educational books, religious material, novels, poetry, [[Paremiography|proverb collections]], dictionaries (monolingual and bilingual), technical manuals, medical topics, etc. The Bible was first translated into Amharic by [[Abu Rumi]] in the early 19th century, but other [[Bible translations into Amharic|translations of the Bible into Amharic]] have been done since.  The most famous Amharic novel is ''[[Love to the Grave (novel)|Fiqir Iske Meqabir]]'' (transliterated various ways) by [[Haddis Alemayehu]] (1909–2003), translated into English by Sisay Ayenew with the title ''Love unto Crypt'', published in 2005 ({{ISBN|978-1-4184-9182-6}}). Others include [[Baalu Girma]], [[Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin]], [[Kebede Michael]].