Brian Chikwava

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Brian Chikwava


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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
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Brian Chikwava is a Zimbabwean writer and musician. His short story "Seventh Street Alchemy" was awarded the 2004 Caine Prize for African writing in English; Chikwava became the first Zimbabwean to do so. He has been a Charles Pick fellow at the University of East Anglia, and lives in London. He continues to write in England and put out an album titled Jacaranda Skits.
Chikwava won the fifth Caine Prize for African Writing in 2004 with his short story "Seventh Street Alchemy" (which was published in Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare, 2003),the first Zimbabwean to win the prize. Making the award, the chair of the judges, Alvaro Ribeiro, described the story as: "A very strong narrative in which Brian Chikwava of Zimbabwe claims the English l
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Harare North

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Twenty Years of the Caine P...

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Hope Deferred: Narratives o...

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Shamiso

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Seventh Street Alchemy

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The Jazz Goblin

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Afrika (Neue Rundschau 2/2009)

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