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Yvonne Vera

Died in 2005

Yvonne Vera was born on 19 September 1964 in Bulawayo and picked cotton as a child near Hartley. She left for Canada in 1987, where she married the same year and pursued her higher studies up to a doctorate at York University in Toronto. Returning in 1995, she directed the National Gallery in Bulawayo from 1997 and published a collection of short stories and five novels. She went back to Canada in 2004 and died in Toronto on 7 April 2005, at the age of forty.

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