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Zimbabwean writer (1952–1987)

Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet.

This, Dambudzo, has been my life since you departed.

At the age of 22 Marechera left behind Rhodesia and the degrading conditions of township life and a war-torn country to resume his studies of English literature.

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Dambudzo Marechera Born Charles William Marechera 4 June Rusape, Southern Rhodesia Died 18 August (aged 35)doc Harare Nationality.

His short career produced a book of stories, two novels (one published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry (also posthumous). His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.

Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed, and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.

Early life and education

Marechera was born on 4 June 1952 in Vengere Township, Rusape, Southern Rhodesia, to Isaac Marechera, a mortuary attendant, and Masvotwa Venenzia Marechera, a maid. He was the child of Shona parents from the eastern-central part of Rhodesia.^[c