Literature & Ideas
Distinguished
Shimmer Chinodya
born 1957
Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, 1990
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Zimbabwe Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
Harvest of Thorns won him the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, and he took the national fiction award again seventeen years later.
Born in Gwelo in 1957, Shimmer Chinodya is a Zimbabwean novelist.
He won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa region and the Outstanding Fiction Book award at the 2007 National Arts Merit Awards.
He won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa region and the Outstanding Fiction Book award at the 2007 National Arts Merit Awards.
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