Background
The son of a local chief, Chenjerai Hove was born in Mazvihwa near Zvishavane, Rhodesia.
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A new collection of evocative and defiant poetry from one of Zimbabwe's leading literary and political writers. The poems reflect on the plight of the individual citizen and the state of Zimbabwe, the poet's birthplace and spiritual home. They convey empathy for those who suffer anonymous deaths at the expense of tyrannical power, and yearning for a more peaceful world and spirit of common destiny; their intention being in his words' to persuade the heart and the soul and human body to be together and to gently cry out to the world'.
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The son of a local chief, Chenjerai Hove was born in Mazvihwa near Zvishavane, Rhodesia.
"Modernist in their formal construction, but making extensive use of oral conventions, Hove"s novels offer an intense examination of the psychic and social costs - to the rural population, especially, of the war of liberation in Zimbabwe." He died on 12 July 2015. He was in Norway at the time and his death has been attributed to liver failure. After studying in Gweru, he became a teacher and then took degrees at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe.
He also worked as a journalist, and contributed to the anthology And Now the Poets Speak.
A critic of the policies of the Mugabe government, he was living in exile at the time of his death as the International Writers Project fellow in residence at Brown University"s Watson Institute for International Studies.
1983 Special Commendations for the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, for Up in Arms 1984 Inaugural President, Zimbabwe Writers Union 1988 Winner, Zimbabwe Literary Award, for Bones 1989 Winner, Noma Award for Publishing In Africa, for Bones 1990 Founding Board Member, Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (Zimrights) 1991-1994 Writer-in-Residence, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe 1994 Visiting Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America 1995 Guest Writer, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts and Leeds University, United Kingdom 1996 Guest Writer, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Germany 1998 Second Prize, Zimbabwe Literary Award, for Ancestors 2001 German-Africa Prize for literary contribution to freedom of expression 2007-2008 International Writers Project Fellow, Brown University.
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