Tendai Huchu

{{short description|Zimbabwean author}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|9|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bindura, Zimbabwe

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| occupation = Author

| nationality = Zimbabwean

| alma_mater = University of Zimbabwe

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| notableworks= The Hairdresser of Harare (2010),
The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician (2014)

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Tendai Huchu (born 28 September 1982){{Cite web |title=Tendai Huchu |publisher=Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin |url=https://www.literaturfestival.com/autoren-en/autoren-2012-en/tendai-huchu |access-date=7 March 2021 }}{{Cite web |title=Tendai Huchu |url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13763 |access-date=17 March 2023 |website=www.litencyc.com |language=en}} who also writes as T. L. Huchu is a Zimbabwean author, best known for his novels The Hairdresser of Harare (2010){{Cite news |title=Falling in love with a gay man in Harare |language=en-GB |work=BBC News Online |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-17401504 |access-date=7 March 2021 }} and The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician (2014).

Tendai Huchu's first novel, The Hairdresser of Harare, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim, and has been translated into German, French, Italian and Spanish. His short fiction in multiple genres and nonfiction have appeared in Enkare Review, The Manchester Review, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Gutter, Interzone, AfroSF, Wasafiri, Warscapes, The Africa Report and elsewhere. In 2013 he received a Hawthornden Fellowship and a Sacatar Fellowship. He was shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize.

{{As of|2015|post=,}} he is a podiatrist in Edinburgh.{{Cite web |url=http://www.africanbookscollective.com/authors-editors/tendai-huchu |title=Tendai Huchu |publisher=African Books Collective |access-date=14 August 2018 }}