Chenjerai Hove (born 1956) is another great Zimbabwean and African writer. He was the 1989 Winner, Noma Award for Publishing In Africa, for his work, Bones. He has led a somewhat peripatetic life over the years, strutting his literary stuff in Europe and America; in tertiary institutions.
A novelist, poet, essayist, he has been quite prolific as a published author. His works over the years include - And Now the Poets Speak (co-editor; poetry), 1981, Up In Arms (poetry), Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1982, Red Hills of Home (poetry), 1984; Gweru: Mambo Press, 1985, Bones (novel), Harare: Baobab Books, 1988; Heineman, Shadows (novel), Harare: Baobab Books, 1991, Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare (journalistic essays), Rainbows in the Dust (poetry), 1997, Guardians of the Soil (cultural reflections by Zimbabwe's elders), 1997, Ancestors (novel), 1997, Desperately Seeking Europe (co-author; essays on European identity), 2003, Palaver Finish, essays on politics and life in Zimbabwe, 2003, Blind Moon (poetry), 2004; and The Keys of Ramb (children's story), 2004
Studies:
In search of psychological worlds : on Yvonne Vera's and Chenjerai Hove's portrayal of women by Carita Backström
Dances with bones : Hove's romanticized Africa by Flora Veit-Wild
Thinking about nativism in Chenjerai Hove's work by Matthew Engelke
Studies:
In search of psychological worlds : on Yvonne Vera's and Chenjerai Hove's portrayal of women by Carita Backström
Dances with bones : Hove's romanticized Africa by Flora Veit-Wild
Thinking about nativism in Chenjerai Hove's work by Matthew Engelke
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