Biography
Angessom Isaak was born in 1963 in Eritrea. He is the author of several books of poetry such as: Sewerti Biet Mahbus (1987), Belay Shida (1992) and Zinededet Kara (with Michael Berhe and Ghirmai Yohannes). He served as a public relations and coordinating officer at the Cultural Affairs Burea of the PFDJ. His poem "Freedom's Colors" is considered one of the Eritrea’s greatest post-war poems. Written in Tigrinya, it was published in 1996 from an unpublished book of poetry.
Sources
Cantalupo, Charles. "War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry." Dar es Salaam, Mkuki Na Nyota, 2009.
"Who Needs a Story? Translations of Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre, and Arabic." Warscapes. 8 March 2012. Accessed 5 August 2022. <http://www.warscapes.com/retrospectives/eritrea/who-needs-story-translations-contemporary-eritrean-poetry-tigrinya-tigre-and>.
