Dambudzo Marechera
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Dambudzo Marechera was a poet from Zimbabwe, best known for HOUSE OF HUNGER.
Quick Facts About Dambudzo Marechera
- Born
- June 4, 1952
- Died
- August 18, 1987
- Nationality
- Zimbabwe
- Profession
- Poet
- Notable works
- HOUSE OF HUNGER
- Known for
- The House of Hunger
About Dambudzo Marechera
Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels, a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry. 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.
Biography source: Wikipedia
