Chenjerai Hove (1956-2015) was born in Mazvihwa communal lands, southern Zimbabwe, near the mining town of Zvishavane. Novelist, poet, essayist and lecturer, his published fiction includes Masimba Avanhu? (1986), Bones (winner of the 1989 Noma Award for publishing in Africa), Shadows, (1991), and Ancestors (1994). His non-fiction includes Shebeen Tales (essays, 1994), Guardians of the Soil (with Iliya Trojanow, 1997), Palaver Finish (essays, 2002). His poetry includes Up in Arms (1982), Swimming in Floods of Tears (with Lyamba wa Kabika, 1983), Red Hills of Home (1985), Rainbows in the Dust (1997) and blind moon (2003). He travelled extensively throughout Africa, Europe, and the United States on lecture tours, and was writer-in-residence at the universities of Zimbabwe, Leeds and Lewis (UK), Clark (Oregon), and Leiden (the Netherlands). He lived in Rambouillet, France, and Stavanger, Norway - writing, lecturing and giving poetry readings. Hove's novels have been translated into several languages, including French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, and Danish.
