Monday, September 24, 2007

Charles Mungoshi

We read the short story The Stetting Sun And The Rolling World by Charles Mungoshi for homework. Charles Mungoshi is a very talented writer, from Zimbabwe, who writes short stories and novels both in Shona, and English. He also writes poetry but doesnt think very much of it as he calls it "mere finger excersise" He writes from anything as children books, to colonial writings. Through out his career as a writer he has accomplished some remarkable things such as winning many awards, such as the Noma award in 1992, The CommenWealth Writers Prize of the African Region, in 1988 and 1998. He also had 2 of his novles win in 1975 in the International PEN Awards.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mungoshi

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