title: Shimmer Chinodya
text: # Shimmer Chinodya
  
  Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist.
  
  He studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government. He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with an MA in creative writing, in 1985.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region.
  * 2007 National Arts Merit Awards Outstanding Fiction Book for Strife
  
  ## Works
  
  * Dew in the Morning. Mambo Press. 1982. ISBN 9780435912062.; Heinemann, 2001, ISBN 978-0-435-91206-2
  * Farai’s Girls (1984)
  * Child of War (1986)
  * Harvest of Thorns (1989)
  * Can we talk and other Stories (1998)
  * Tale of Tamari (2004)
  * Chairman of Fools (2005)
  * Strife. African Books Collective. 2006. ISBN 978-1-77922-058-5.
  * Tindo's Quest, Longman Zimbabwe (Pvt) (January 2011), ISBN 978-1779034922
  