Shimmer Chinodya

Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a 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 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.^[6]

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