Daniachew Worku ' s writings: Three Plays and Two Novels is arnthesis in three parts . The first part is intended to give the readerrna general idea of the major themes in the three plays and the twornnovels of Daniachew Worku. In the second part the genr es which thernwriter uses as well as the techniques he employs are discuss ed.rnThe third part deals mainly with Daniachew Worku 1 s social concernsrnin his three plays and two novels. I n the introduction to the thesisrna brief background of Ethiopian literatur e is given in order to avoidrnthe dangers o f treating Daniachew Wo rku ' s works o f art in i solation.rnSegegenish Isat (100 pp .), still in the manuscript form , is arnplay written in the late fifties. This play was staged in HararrnMedhane Alem Secondary School a nd Addis Ababa Technical Schoolrnrespectively , when the author was an Amharic teacher in these schools.rnSewalle Biyye (pp . 134), published in 1958, is a verse play . Tibelchrn(pp . 100) , in the manuscript form, is a play whick was put up at thernCreative Arts Centre of the present Addis Ababa University and at thr.rnNational Theatre in 1964 . These plays are all written in Amha ric.rnAt afris (pp . 330) , a novel written in Amha ric, was pu bl is~edrnin 1970 . The Thirteenth Sun ( pp . 172) , is a novel writt en in Englishrnand p ublished in 1973 . All dates a re in Gregorian Calendar .rnIn his plays and his novels , Daniachew Vlo rku draws the atten tio nrno f his audience to questions regarding the problems of his own societyrnwith the sensitivity of the artist . The artist 's sensitivity isrnespecially remarkable in the play Tibelch , and in the two novels,rnAaafris and Whe Thirteenth Sun .rn=rnIn the society which Daniachew Wo rku depicts through his playsand novels, there is a conflict of the old and the new in Ethiopia .rnEthiopia ' s traditional values die hard , while forces of modernityrncall f o r a lot of sacrifice and struggle . To ~iscern what isrnostensible and what is real in both the old and the new sets ofrnsocial values presents a lot of di fficulty