Dambudzo Marechera
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Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952–August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet.
His short career included a collection of poems, two novels, two novels (one of whom was published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poetry, as well as a collection of poems (both posthumous).
He was best known for his abrasive, dense, and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his conduct in the universities he was barred from, which were contradicted by multiple sources.
Early life
Charles William Marechera was born in Vengere Township, Rusape, Southern Rhodesia, to Isaac Marechera, a funeral attendant, and Masvotwa Marechera, a maid. He was the son of Shona parents from Rhodesia's eastern-central area.
Marechera's 1978 book The House of Hunger explains his father's remarkable imagination and success in the merging of art and life, whether he was "found in the hospital mortuary with his body riddled with bullets" or worse.
Flora Veit-Wild, a German researcher, gave a lengthy account of Marechera's childhood and upbringing, finding what was believed to be a fatal component in the younger Marechera's life. When Marechera returned from London and was given Writer-in-Residency at the University of Zimbabwe, his mother and sisters reportedly tried to reach him but he refused offhand, accusing the mother of trying to murder him. In fact, it is recorded from anecdotal evidence that Marechera never had strong links with any member of his family when he returned to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in 1987.
He grew up in the midst of racial injustice, poverty, and violence. He attended St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga, where he clashed with his teachers over the colonial teaching syllabus, the University of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe), where he was suspended amid student protests, and New College, Oxford, where his unsociable behavior and academic dereliction culminated in another expulsion.
Awards
- 1979 Guardian Fiction Prize