Shimmer Chinodya

Novelist, Author

1957 –

30

Who is Shimmer Chinodya?

Shimmer Chinodya is an Zimbabwean novelist.

He studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government. He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with an MA in creative writing, in 1985.

He won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region.

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Born
1957
Gweru
Nationality
  • Zimbabwe
Profession
Education
  • University of Zimbabwe
  • University of Iowa

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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