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Solomon Hailemariam has won the first Burt Award for African Literature for his Young Adult book “The Young Crusader”. Solomon has attended his higher education in Addis Ababa University, University of South Africa, University of the Western Cape. The Venice Academy of Human Rights in Venice, Italy, and Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Besides his regular creative writings, his current research interests focus on political culture.