Shimmer Chinodya
Zimbabwean novelist
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Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist.[1]
Chinodya 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 University of Iowa as a Master of Arts in creative writing in 1985.[3]
Chinodya won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa region[4] and Strife won Outstanding Fiction Book at the 2007 National Arts Merit Awards.[5]
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
