Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SHIMMER CHINODYA




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.

No comments:

Post a Comment