Shimmer Chinodya is an
award winning Zimbabwean writer, essentially recognized as a powerful
novelist. He studied English and
education at the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with
an MA in Creative Writing. He garnered acclaim whilst winning the 1990
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region. His first novel, Dew in the Morning was published in 1982. His work, Strife landed
him the 2008 Noma award for literature.
Chinodya has also written children’s books, educational texts,
training manuals and radio and film scripts, including the script for the
award-winning feature film, Everyone’s Child. His published works include: Dew in the Morning
(1982), 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, and Tindo's Quest.
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