Shimmer Chinodya
Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist.[1]
He studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government.[when?][2] He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with an MA in creative writing, in 1985.[3][4]
Awards[]
- 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region.[5]
- 2007 National Arts Merit Awards Outstanding Fiction Book for Strife[6]
Works[]
- Dew in the Morning. Mambo Press. 1982. ISBN 9780435912062.; Heinemann, 2001, ISBN 978-0-435-91206-2
- Farai’s Girls (1984)
- Child of War (1986)
- Harvest of Thorns (1989)
- Can we talk and other Stories (1998)
- Tale of Tamari (2004)
- Chairman of Fools (2005)
- Strife. African Books Collective. 2006. ISBN 978-1-77922-058-5.
- Tindo's Quest, Longman Zimbabwe (Pvt) (January 2011), ISBN 978-1779034922
References[]
- ^ "Literary Encyclopedia - Shimmer Chinodya". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ http://allafrica.com/stories/201006070022.html
- ^ "Author Bio: Shimmer Chinodya". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Shimmer Chinodya Biography - Shimmer Chinodya comments". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2011-02-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "NAMA Awards 2007". Pindula. 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
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