Waiting for the Rain de Charles Mungoshi

Waiting for the Rain: Zph Writers Series, cartea 1

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2000

The award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi is recognised in Africa, and internationally, as one of the continent's most powerful writers today. This early novel deals with the pain and dislocation of the clash of the old and new ways - the educated young man determined to go overseas, and the elders of the family believing his duty is to stay and head the family.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780949932020
ISBN-10: 0949932027
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Zimbabwe Publishing House
Seria Zph Writers Series

Locul publicării:Zimbabwe

Caracteristici

Charles Mungoshi was a renowned playwright and author. His awards include both the 1988 and 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prizes (Africa Region), two International PEN Awards in 1975 and the Noma Award in 1992. More recently, his novel, Branching Streams Flow in the Dark won the National Arts Merit Award in 2014.

Notă biografică

Charles Mungoshi was born in 1947 in the Chivhu area of Zimbabwe. He was a novelist, playwright, and founding figure of modern Zimbabwean literature.After graduating from the University of Zimbabwe, Mungoshi worked at the Literature Bureau as an editor and at Zimbabwe Publishing House until 1986. He returned to university as a Writer in Residence and continued to work as a freelance writer, scriptwriter and editor.Mungoshi was twice awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa) in 1988 and 1998 for his short story collections, The Setting Sun and the Rolling World and Walking Still.Two of his novels, Waiting for the Rain (1975) and Ndiko kupindana kwa mazuva (1975) received International PEN awards.Mungoshi died in 2019.

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Zimbabwe's finest and most versatile writer
The influence of Mungoshi's work cuts across generations, continents and cultures

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