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Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes i(10610363 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Ethiopian
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1 Maqkala 1868/London 2018 Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: In This Desert, There Were Seeds 2019;
1 y separately published work icon Ways of Being Here Rafeif Ismail , Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes , Tinashe Jakwa , Yuot Alaak , Witchcliffe : Margaret River Press Centre for Stories , 2017 10721191 2017 selected work short story

'Ways of Being Here features four stories by emerging writers Rafeif Ismail, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Tinashe Jakwa and Yuot Alaak, winners of last year's 'Ways of Being Here' flash fiction competition, which was open to any writer of African heritage residing in Western Australia who had less than four published stories and/or articles. The stories featured are urgent, innovative, and inimitable, distinct voices that are easy to read, but hard to forget once you've entered their worlds, words, and thoughts.'
1 Born Free, Created Poor : Coming of Age in Ethiopia Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes , Rebecca Higgie , 2016 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 61 no. 2 2016; (p. 58-66) 'Poverty is not the lack of food or shelter. That is destitution. Poverty is a concept that creates you as a different person, a different being. Through knowledge, you come to know you are poor.' (Introduction)
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