Charles Mungoshi

Charles Mungoshi was born on 2 December 1947 in Manyene, near Chivhu, into a rural Shona family. He worked for the Forestry Commission and then for a distributor of school textbooks, was from 1975 to 1981 an editor at the Literature Bureau, then at the Zimbabwe Publishing House, and writer in residence at the University of Zimbabwe from 1985 to 1987. He wrote in Shona and in English, received the Noma Award in 1992 and twice the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, and died in Harare on 16 February 2019.

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• NovelWaiting for the RainCharles Mungoshi · 1975Literature