Chinodya, Shimmer
Genre:
Novel
Bio:
 The name Shimmer Chinodya conjures up images of creativity, analysis and commentary. His work, spanning two decades to date, has put Zimbabwean writing on a new level. Shimmer Chinodya was born in Gweru in 1957.
He enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe where he studied literature and education. Later gaining an MA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Shimmer Chinodya has worked extensively as a curriculum developer, materials designer, editor and screen-writer.
His published works include Dew in the Morning (1982), Farai’s Girls (1984), Child of War (1985) and Harvest of Thorns (1989) for which he won the Commonwealth’s Writers’ Prize for the Africa Region and an Honourable Mention from NOMA in 1990. In 2000 he produced Can We Talk and Other Stories, an anthology which was short-listed for the Caine Prize in 2000. His recent work, ....... has won him accolades for consistency in the genre.
Both Dew in the Morning and Harvest of Thorns have been serialised on radio. Chinodya has also published several children’s books in drama, folklore and poetry under the name B. Chirasha. He has been awarded various fellowships abroad and, from 1995 to 1997, was a distinguished Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at St Lawrence University, New York.
Bio by Jameson Gadzirai
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