“The intense, slightly aggressive young man made an immediate impression. But the intensity was real. And the writing talent which was being applauded was real. And the aggression or anger was real, ...

Harare — SATURDAY, August 18 2007, marked the 20th anniversary of the death of literature, playwright and poetry icon, Dambudzo Marechera, celebrated at the National Art Gallery in Harare. Many ...

This Is Africa announces 2022 as the year of "Return to Marechera." The great Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987), would have turned 70 this year. This Is Africa announces 2022 as the ...

He was thrown out of New College, Oxford, for haphazard tutorial attendance or, the story goes, for attempting to set fire to a building. He counted Percy Bysshe Shelley as his role model in rebellion ...

Zimbabwean novelist Dambudzo Marechera is a “new post-nationalist writer”, says Nigerian writer Helon Habila, author of Oil on Water. Such was the complexity of Dambudzo Marechera’s work that he ...

She savours her romantic experiences in the arms of an enigmatic, if somewhat eccentric genius and talented writer who captured the attention of literary critics at home and abroad in the early 80s.

The question of whether Dambudzo Marechera’s way of writing was one of the most ideal or not continues to dominate the local literary discourse. There have, however ,been no consensus, but it is ...

I am reading a piece she has written on Marechera. As years go by and I continue to read, I realise that this German professor of African literatures and cultures is a Marechera scholar. My current ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The writer Dambudzo Marechera , who died on 18 August 1987, remains a popular figure in Zimbabwe. He is heralded by a young generation as a radical and counter-culture ...

The cliches about that non-category “African ‘literature” have it that, particularly for prose fiction, it has tended to gravitate towards a social(ist), or a vaguely magic, realism. While there are ...