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Name
  
Shimmer Chinodya

Role
  
Novelist

Movies
  
Everyone's Child


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Education
  
University of Iowa, University of Zimbabwe

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Books
  
Harvest of Thorns, Chairman of Fools, Dew in the Morning, Can we talk and other stori, Tale of Tamari

Book review chairman of fools by shimmer chinodya


Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist.

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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.

Interview with shimmer chinodya


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 177903492X
  • ISBN 978-1779034922

    Controversy

    On Boxing Day, 22 December 2014, Shimmer Chinodya caused a stir at a Harare Hospital when he stripped naked and started threatening hospital workers. Police were called and they took him away and released him later without any charges. Reached for a comment by reporters, Chinodya threatened to sue the reporters if they leaked the story.

    References

    Shimmer Chinodya Wikipedia