This is a list of Zimbabwean writers. * N. H. Brettell (1908–1991), poet *

NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 12 October 1981), a Zimbabwean author. In 2012, the National Book Foundation named her a "5 under 35" honoree. She was named one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by ''New ...

(1981– ), novelist * Patrick Chakaipa (1932–2003), novelist * Charles C Singende (1943–2007), poet and Shona Literature Bureau, contributor and compiler of Nhetembo 1977 * L. Washington Chaparadza (1929–1964), Shona writer * Paul Chidyausiku (1929– ), preacher and writer *

Bernard Chidzero Bernard Thomas Gibson Chidzero (1 July 1927 – 8 August 2002) was a Zimbabwean economist, politician, and writer. He served as the independent Zimbabwe's second List of Finance Ministers of Zimbabwe, finance minister. Early life and education ...

(1927–2002), economist and novelist * Samuel Chimsoro (1949–2016), novelist and poet *

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 ...

(1957– ), poet, short story writer, novelist, and textbook writer * Edmund Chipamaunga (1938–2019), novelist *

Herbert Chitepo Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo (15 June 1923 – 18 March 1975) led the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) until he was assassinated in March 1975. Although his murderer remains unidentified, the Rhodesian author Peter Stiff says tha ...

(1923–1975), novelist * Raymond Choto (1962– ), journalist and novelist * A. S. Cripps (1869–1952), priest, short story writer and poet *

Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, ''Nervous Conditions'' (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in ...

(1959– ), novelist *

John Eppel John Eppel was born in Lydenburg, South Africa. He moved to Colleen Bawn, a small mining town in the south of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), at the age of four. He was educated at Milton High School in Bulawayo, and later attended the Univers ...

(1947– ), novelist, poet and short story writer *

Petina Gappah Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by ''Brittle Paper''. In 2017 she had a DAAD Arti ...

(1971– ), short-story writer and novelist *

Chenjerai Hove Chenjerai Hove (9 February 1956 – 12 July 2015), was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both English and Shona. "Modernist in their formal construction, but making extensive use of oral conventions, Hove's novels offer an in ...

(1956– ), novelist, poet, critic and editor * Wilson Katiyo (1947–2003), novelist * Philios Mtshane Khumalo (1925– ), Shona writer * Giles Kuimba (1936– ), novelist *

Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing (; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remain ...

(1919–2013), born in

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), Nobel literature prize-winner, critic, novelist and short story writer * Steve Linde (born 1960), newspaperman *

Ignatius Mabasa Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean writer, storyteller, and musician, who writes mainly in Shona. Mabasa was born in Mount Darwin and grew up on his grandfather's farm there. He attended school in Chitungwiza, where he began t ...

(1971– ), poet and novelist * Nevanji Madanhire (1961– ), novelist and editor of the ''Zimbabwe Standard'' * Wiseman Magwa (1962– ), playwright *

Barbara Makhalisa Barbara Makhalisa (born 1949), also known by her married name as Barbara Nkala, is a teacher, List of Zimbabwean writers, Zimbabwean writer, Ndebele translator, novelist, editor and publisher, one of the earliest female writers published in Zimb ...

(1949– ), novelist and short story writer * Nozipo Maraire (1966– ), doctor and writer * Munashe Kaseke (1986- ), pharmacist and writer * John Marangwanda (1923– ), Shona novelist *

Dambudzo Marechera Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels (one published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poetry, ...

(1952–1987), novelist * Edmund Masundire (1966– ), novelist * Timothy O. McLoughlin (1937– ), novelist, poet and editor *

Cont Mhlanga Cont Mdladla Mhlanga (1957/1958 – 1 August 2022) was a Zimbabwean playwright, actor, and theatre director. He was also the founder and head of the Amakhosi Theatre Productions company, formed in 1982. Mhlanga was a critic of the government ...

, playwright, actor and theatre director * S. O. Mlilo (1924–1995),

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novelist * Aaron Chiwundura Moyo (1959– ), novelist and playwright *

Charles Mudede Charles Tonderai Mudede (; born February 8, 1969) is a Zimbabwean writer, filmmaker,Patricia O'Brien (a.k.a. OlallieLake)Charles Mudede short documentary film. Uploaded to YouTube 2007-07-27. Accessed 2012-12-20. and leftwing cultural critic. Tho ...

(1949– ), writer, filmmaker, and leftwing cultural critic * George Mujajati (1957– ), playwright and novelist *

Charles Mungoshi Charles Lovemore Mungoshi (2 December 1947 – 16 February 2019), was a Zimbabwean writer. Life and career Mungoshi was born on 2 December 1947 at Manyene, near Chivhu (Zimbabwe). He was educated at St Augustine's, Penhalonga. After leaving ...

(1947–2019 ), writer and editor *

David Mungoshi David Sunsly Mungoshi (30 September 1949 – 29 August 2020) was a Zimbabwean novelist, actor, poet and teacher. Early life He was born in 1949 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and was fluent in Shona, Ndebele and English. He learnt Zulu, similar to Ndeb ...

(1949–2020), novelist and poet *

Masimba Musodza Julius Masimba Musodza (born 29 March 1976) is a Zimbabwean author. Life Musodza was born at the cusp of the emergence of the new Zimbabwe, the eldest son of a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Lands. The Musodza family are of the Buja ...

(1976– ), screenwriter, novelist, producer *

Solomon Mutswairo Solomon Mangwiro Mutswairo, also spelt Mutsvairo (26 April 1924 – November 2005), was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. A member of the Zezuru people of central Zimbabwe, he wrote the first novel in the Shona language, ''Feso''. In his late ye ...

(1924–2005), novelist and poet (see also

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Togara Muzanenhamo Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975) is a Zimbabwean poet born in Lusaka, Zambia, to Zimbabwean parents. He was brought up in Zimbabwe on his family’s farm – west of the capital Harare. He attended St George's College, Harare. He studied in France ...

(1975– ), poet * Geoffrey Ndhlala (1949– ) * Emmanuel Ngara (1947– ), academic * Mthandazo Ndema Ngwenya (1949–1992), novelist, radio playwright and poet * Stanley Nyamfukudza (1951– ), novelist and short story writer * Freedom Nyamubaya (1958–2015), poet * Emmanuel F. Ribeiro (1935– ), novelist *

Kristina Rungano Kristina Masuwa-Morgan (born 28 February 1963) is a Zimbabwean poet and short story writer, better known as Kristina Rungano. She was the first published Zimbabwean woman poet. Biography Rungano was born in 1963 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Her father, w ...

(1963– ), first published woman poet in Zimbabwe * Joe Ruzvidzo (1979– ), journalist and short story writer *

Stanlake Samkange Stanlake John William Thompson Samkange (1922–1988) was a Zimbabwean historiographer, educationist, journalist, author, and African nationalist. He was a member of an elite Zimbabwean nationalist political dynasty and the most prolific of the fir ...

(1922–1988), historian and novelist * Amos M. P. Sibanda (1927– ), novelist * Ndabezinhle S. Sigogo (1932–2006), novelist and editor *

Ndabaningi Sithole Ndabaningi Sithole (21 July 1920 – 12 December 2000) founded the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a militant organisation that opposed the government of Rhodesia, in July 1963.Veenhoven, Willem Adriaan, Ewing, and Winifred Crum. ''Cas ...

(1922–2000), historian, politician, and novelist *

Alexander McCall Smith Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British writer. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and ...

(1948– ), also connected with

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, lawyer and novelist *

Valerie Tagwira Valerie Tagwira is a Zimbabwean writer who is a specialist obstetrician-gynecologist by profession.Sara Davies"Literary conversation with Valerie Tagwira" ''Harare News'', 4 June 2014. Her debut novel ''The Uncertainty of Hope'', published in 2006 ...

* T. K. Tsodzo / Thompson K. Tsodzo (1947– ), novelist * Lawrence Vambe (1917–2019) *

Yvonne Vera Yvonne Vera (19 September 1964 – 7 April 2005) was an author from Zimbabwe. Her first published book was a collection of short stories, ''Why Don't You Carve Other Animals'' (1992), which was followed by five novels: ''Nehanda'' (1993), ''With ...

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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (born 25 May 1955) is a Malawian historian, literary critic, novelist, short-story writer and blogger at ''The Zeleza Post''. He was (2009) president of the African Studies Association. He was the Vice-President for Academic ...

(1955– ), historian, critic, novelist and short story writer *

Musaemura Zimunya Musaemura Bonas Zimunya (born 14 November 1949) is one of Zimbabwe's most important contemporary writers. Life Zimunya was born in Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe), to Mandiera Watch and Kufera Zimunya. In 1973 he was expelled from the Uni ...

(1949– ), poet, critic and short story writer * Salem Miles (2004- ), young adult writer, poet

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