The Contributing Ethiopian
We wish to congratulate Ato Fassil Yirgu, Ethiopian-American owner of Chicago based Nyala Publishing , for being one of five immigrants who received the 2006 Changing Worlds' Immigrant & Refugee Contribution Award . Ato Yirgu, editor of One House: The Battle of Adwa 1896--100 years (with Pamela S. Brown, 1996) brought us The Texture of Dreams by author Fasil Yitbarek in 2005. Read reviews of the novel by Tecola Hagos , Helm Magazine, Richard Pankhurst , and here ; an interview with Yitbarek on The Big Issue Ethiopia is available on the publisher's site. Also available on that site are several interesting titles we can't wait to pick up.