Shimmer Chinodya

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.[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

References
  1. "Literary Encyclopedia - Shimmer Chinodya". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  2. "allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Shimmer Chinodya Speaks Out (Page 1 of 2)". Archived from the original on 8 June 2010.
  3. "Author Bio: Shimmer Chinodya". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  4. "Michigan State University Press : Shimmer Chinodya". Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  5. "NAMA Awards 2007". Pindula. 25 February 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2020.


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