Writing Lives

Description

Writing Lives, a collection of short stories, featuring Lawrence Hoba, Tendai Huchu, Tendai Machingaidze, Nevanji Madanhire, Daniel Mandishona, Christopher Mlalazi, Blessing Musariri, Chiedza Musengezi, Sekai Nzenza, Fungisayi Sasa and Emmanuel Sigauke. Writing Lives is the seventh of Weaver's anthologies of short stories following Writing Still, Writing Now, Laughing Now, Women Writing Zimbabwe, Mazambuko and Writing Free. As with the other anthologies, this vibrant collection reflects the lives and experiences of Zimbabweans as filtered through the lens of each author's perceptions. Writing Lives gives us stories that will make us laugh and bring tears to our eyes as it provides a focus on the past, the present and even the future.

Sujets

• Littérature Africaine
• Littérature Zimbabwéenne
• Collections
• Collection

Informations

• Publié par: Weaver Press
• Date de parution: 14 octobre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781779222565
• Langue: English

Extrait

Writing Lives
Writing Lives
edited by
Irene Staunton
Published by Weaver Press, Box A1922, Avondale, Harare. 2013
www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com
Each individual story, the author.
This collection, Weaver Press, 2013.
Photographs of the authors: Lawrence Hoba, Nevanji Madanhire, Daniel Mandishona, Chris Mlalazi, Chiedza Musengezi, Sekai Nzenza (Weaver Press), Tendai Machingaidze (Taku Machingaidze), Blessing Musariri (Fungaifoto), Fungisayi Sasa (Rumbidzai Sasa).
Cover Design: Design Duo, Harare.
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ISBN: 978-1-77922-235-0
Contents
Notes about the Authors
Our Freedom by Lawrence Hoba
The Life After by Tendai Huchu
The Red Vienna is Back by Tendai Machingaidze
Her Books by Nevanji Madanhire
Better Build Boys than Repair Men by Daniel Mandishona
Tsano by Christopher Mlalazi
Like Datsun by Blessing Musariri
Trespassers by Chiedza Musengezi
My Grandmother by Sekai Nzenza
We re All Comrades Now by Fungisayi Sasa
Battle by Emmanuel Sigauke
Notes about the Authors
Lawrence Hoba was born in 1983 in Masvingo. He is an entrepreneur, literacy promoter and author who studied Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Zimbabwe. Hoba s short stories and poetry have appeared in a number of publications including Zimbablog , a journal of the Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe, the Warwick Review (2009), Writing Now (2005) and Laughing Now (2007). His anthology, The Trek and Other Stories (2009) was nominated for the NAMA, 2010 and went on to win the ZBPA award for Best Literature in English.
Tendai Huchu is the author of The Hairdresser of Harare , which is now translated into German, French and Italian. In 2013 he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and a Sacatar Fellowship in Bahia. His short fiction has appeared in various journals and anthologies around the world. He is currently working on his next novel.
Tendai Machingaidze was born in Harare. She attended Syracuse University in New York, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, Magna cum Laude. She also holds an MA in Christian Education and a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas. Her hobbies include dance, travel, and writing.
Nevanji Madanhire , born in 1961, has worked as a journalist since 1990. In 1996 he became Editor-in-Chief of what was then Zimbabwe s only independent newspaper, The Financial Gazette . In 1998, he was part of the team that founded The Daily News . In 2002, he became the founding editor of The Business Tribune , which quickly grew its readership and circulation because of its fierce independence. It was banned in 2004. He then became the country editor of a London-based NGO, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. There, he built up a team of ten journalists, which gave the world fresh insights into the Zimbabwean crisis. Since January 2010, he has been editor of the weekly Sunday newspaper, The Standard . He has published two books, Goatsmell , (1993) and If the Wind Blew , (1995). He has published short stories in anthologies such as Writing Still (2003), All Creatures Great and Small (2006) and Mazambuko (2011). He hopes to become a full-time writer when circumstances allow.
Daniel Mandishona is an architect. He was born in Harare in 1959 and brought up by his maternal grandparents in Mbare (then known as Harari township). In 1976 he was expelled from Goromonzi Secondary School. He lived in London from 1977-92. He first studied Graphic Design, then Architecture at the Bartlett School, University College, London. He now has his own practice in Harare. His first short story, A Wasted Land was published in Contemporary African Short Stories (1992). A collection of his short stories, White Gods Black Demons, was published in 2009.
Christopher Mlalazi is currently Guest Writer of the City of Hanover in Germany, the latest in a series of writing fellowships. In 2012, he was a fellow at the Iowa International Writing Program, USA; in 2011, he was Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden; and, in 2010, Guest Writer at Villa Aurora, in Los Angeles, USA. Prolific as a prose writer and playwright, in 2008 he was the co-winner of the Oxfam Novib PEN Freedom of Expression Award at the Hague for theatre. In 2009, he was given a NAMA award for his short story collection, Dancing With Life: Tales From the Township . He was nominated for another NAMA for his novel Many Rivers (2009). In 2010 he won a NAMA for his play Election Day . He is is currently working on a new novel, They Are Coming , which was longlisted for the 2013 Kwani Manuscript Project award.
Blessing Musariri wishes she could dance like the contestants on, So You Think You Can Dance , but she has no memory for routines. So, failing that, she hopes she writes even half as well as she wishes she could dance. It is her dream to write a multi-award-winning work of fiction that will be made into a major motion picture.
Chiedza Musengezi has co-edited compilations of women s voices in: Women of Resilience (2000), Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region (2003) and A Tragedy of Lives: Women in Prison in Zimbabwe (2003). Her short stories and poetry have been anthologised locally and internationally. She taught in Ireland and she currently works for the Legal Resources Foundation in Harare. Chiedza was published in Writing Still (2003), Writing Now (2005) and Women Writing Zimbabwe (2008).
Sekai Nzenza is a writer and an international development consultant specialising in NGO accountability, health, microenterprise and human rights. She was born in rural Zimbabwe and trained as a nurse at Great Ormond Street in London. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her essays, fiction and short stories have been published in a number of newspapers and journals including The Guardian Weekly and The Herald . Her second novel, Songs to an African Sunset: A Zimbabwean Story (1997), presents stories of everyday life and the challenges of poverty in rural Zimbabwe.
Sekai returned to Zimbabwe in 2010. Confronted with the consequences of HIV/AIDS, death and poverty in her village, she and the Village Women s Burial Society formed the Simukai Development Project whose aim is to seek practical sustainable solutions to solving rural poverty.
Fungisayi Sasa lives in England. She has written a children s book, The Search Head , and her work has appeared in Blue-Eyed Boybait, Spilt Milk magazine, Wordsetc and Writing Free (2011). Several of her poems have been published by Poetry International (Zimbabwe). She is currently working on a short story collection and a novel.
Emmanuel Sigauke grew up in Zimbabwe where he began writing at around age thirteen. He has attempted different genres and has published poetry and short fiction. He resides in Sacramento, California, where he teaches English at Cosumnes River College. He is the founding editor of Munyori Literary Journal and is involved in organisations such as the Sacramento Poetry Center and Writers International Network, Zimbabwe, and others.