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Mungoshi's works include short stories and novels in Shona and English. [5] [6] He also wrote poetry, but viewed it as a "mere finger exercise". He had a wide range, including anti-colonial writings and children's books. While the colonial regime initially banned his work he eventually wrote about post-colonial oppression as well.
Charles C Singende (1943–2007), poet and Shona Literature Bureau, contributor and compiler of Nhetembo 1977; L. Washington Chaparadza (1929–1964), Shona writer; Paul Chidyausiku (1929– ), preacher and writer; Bernard Chidzero (1927–2002), economist and novelist
The Rise of the Shona Novel: A Study in Development, 1890-1984. Mambo Press, Gweru. 1990. Plots And Characters in Shona Fiction, 1956-1984: A Handbook. Mambo Press, Gweru. 1987. Herbert W. Chitepo’s Epic Poem, Soko Risina Musoro – The Tale without a Head: A Critique. Longman, Zimbabwe. 1986. Aspects of the Shona Novel and Other Related ...
Morgan Mahanya (born 30 June 1948) is a Zimbabwean Shona-language writer of detective fiction and war fiction.He has published 13 books since 1976, [2] including books in Shona and in English, both fiction and nonfiction. [3]
Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean writer, storyteller, and musician, who writes mainly in Shona. [1] Mabasa was born in Mount Darwin and grew up on his grandfather's farm there. He attended school in Chitungwiza, where he began to write short stories. He studied Shona and linguistics at the University of Zimbabwe.
Solomon Mangwiro Mutswairo, also spelt Mutsvairo (26 April 1924 – November 2005), was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. A member of the Zezuru people of central Zimbabwe, he wrote the first novel in the Shona language, Feso.
He has contributed some pieces in a Shona poetry anthology, Zviri Muchinokoro (2005, ZPH Publishers).. He has written and translated a number of children's stories and published some educational textbooks, and has also been an occasional contributor to the print media and ran a radio programme for young Shona writers.
Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988. It was the first book published by a black woman from Zimbabwe in English. [ 1 ] Nervous Conditions won Best Book of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa section) in 1989.