Shimmer Chinodya
Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is an Zimbabwean novelist.[1]
He 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 from the University of Iowa, with an MA in Creative Writing, in 1985.[3][4]
He won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region.[5]
Works
- Dew in the Morning. Mambo Press. 1982.; 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-10: 177903492X
ISBN-13: 978-1779034922