Muhammad Abdalwali (1941–1973) was a prominent Yemeni writer of Ethiopian descent, and one of the earliest authors in Yemen to adopt writing for artistic purposes rather than for nationalist agendas.[1] He authored a dozen short stories and two novels.
His parents were from Ethiopia; his father was a republican revolutionary who opposed the Imamate. Abdalwali graduated from the Gorki Institute in Moscow and was a communist.[1] Given his Ethiopian heritage, many of his works dealt with Yemeni immigrants and exiles and the fate of Yemeni-African marriages. His novel You Die a Stranger, for example, is about a Yemeni national who opens a small shop in Addis Ababa but long has a desire to return home.[1]
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