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Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam | |
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| Native name | ሣህለ ሥላሴ ብርሃነ ማርያም |
| Born | Sahle Ananka (ሳህለ ኣናንቃ) 1936 (age 87–88) Gurage Zone, Ethiopia |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam (Amharic: ሣህለ ሥላሴ ብርሃነ ማርያም; born 1936) is an Ethiopian novelist and translator.
Sahle Sellassie wrote the first novel in the Chaha language in the mid-1960s. In 1969 Heinemann published his first English-language novel in their African Writers Series. He continued to write novels into the 1980s. Sahle Sellassie also translated books into Amharic. This included novels by Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and others.