Shimmer Chinodya

{{Short description|Zimbabwean novelist}}

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Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist.{{cite web|url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=863|title=Literary Encyclopedia - Shimmer Chinodya|publisher=|accessdate=6 September 2016|url-access=subscription}}

Chinodya studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government.{{when|date=August 2020}}{{cite web| url = http://allafrica.com/stories/201006070022.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100608202010/http://allafrica.com/stories/201006070022.html| archive-date = 2010-06-08| title = allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Shimmer Chinodya Speaks Out (Page 1 of 2)}} He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe and University of Iowa as a Master of Arts in creative writing in 1985.{{cite web|url=http://www.heinemann.com/authors/491.aspx|title=Author Bio: Shimmer Chinodya|publisher=|accessdate=6 September 2016}}

Chinodya won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa region{{cite web |url=http://msupress.msu.edu/authorbio.php?authorID=2212 |title=Michigan State University Press : Shimmer Chinodya |accessdate=2011-02-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224004250/http://msupress.msu.edu/authorbio.php?authorID=2212 |archivedate=2011-02-24 }} and Strife won Outstanding Fiction Book at the 2007 National Arts Merit Awards.{{Cite web |date=2018-02-25 |title=NAMA Awards 2007 |url=https://www.pindula.co.zw/NAMA_Awards_2007 |access-date=2020-08-30 |website=Pindula |language=en}}