Shimmer Chinodya

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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

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  • 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)
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