Selamta Magazine presents Ethiopia through writers’ eyes in its May-June issue (pages 60-61), and the Times Literary Supplement has a review by James Copnall.
“[Ethiopia through Writers’ Eyes is] A sort of historical travel guide to a much-misunderstood country, albeit one as unreliable as any narrator; or as Stranger himself puts it in one of his illuminating essays, adapting Borges, ‘one could venture to say that all countries worth their salt create their own geography – from myths, old maps, and wishful thinking.'”
The Times Literary Supplement
After a launch party at the Louvre Hotel, the Ethiopian edition of Ethiopia through writers’ eyes is now on sale in all Bookworld and Mega stores in Addis Ababa.
(And in the UK with Eland Books and all good bookshops, and worldwide through Amazon).
Download the Ethiopia through writers’eyes press release
Meheret Mokonnen did a nice profile of the book in The Reporter. You can read it here.
Here is an interview with Capital Newspaper‘s Groum Abate about the book.
And an interview in Amharic on Sheger Radio (thank you Demissew!).
Et, a different matter, but still of interest to all Ethiophiles, the literary magazine Toute La Lire (French), has just published the introduction to Le Syllabaire Abyssin (French) – a hommage to Jean-Michel Cornu de Lenclos – to whom Ethiopia through writers’ eyes is also dedicated.
The Anglo-Ethiopian Society has announced its book club will be meeting for a discussion around Ethiopia through writers’eyes on March 8 2017 at 7.30 at the National Theatre (South Bank, London SE1 9PX).
Un billet de l’aiguilloneur en chef du Djibouti-Addis Ababa Express, Hugues Fontaine, sur son site African Train (un blog initialement consacré à la ligne de chemin de fer, et au livre Un train en Afrique lui-même, un blog qui s’est ensuite développé ces dernières années, au fil des recherches et des exposition de Hugues, sur le règne de l’empereur Ménélik, et notamment sur son conseiller suisse – et ‘ministre des affaires étrangères’ – Alfred Ilg.
The Rimbaud ‘Temple’ of the Louvre Hotel
The Chef of the Louvre
A heartfelt thank you to Jean-Marc, Lucien & Thomas – and the whole team from the Louvre (and especially the chef), for the warm and friendly atmostphere and the tasty food of the Louvre – an ‘Alliance Française bis’ in Addis Ababa – and to Awash Wine and Hervé for kindly providing their Abyssinian cocktails for the launch of our very own Ethiopian blend: that special concoction of Ethiopian flights of fancy and historical relations, Ethiopia through writers’ eyes.
(And a special thank you to Daniel Seyoum from Lexical for being attentive to every detail of the book’s progress – from the printing to the event itself, no detail was too small for him. Thank you Danny!)
Abyssinian cocktails were served by Awash Wine
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