Zimbabwean writer Brian Chikwava views
Brian Chikwava is a Zimbabwean writer and musician. His short story Seventh Street Alchemy was awarded the 2004 Caine Prize for African writing in English; Chikwava became the first Zimbabwean to do so. He has been a Charles Pick fellow at the University of East Anglia, and lives in London. He continues to write in England and put out an album titled Jacaranda Skits.
Background
Brian Chikwava was born in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in 1971. He went to boarding school in Bulawayo, going on to study civil engineering at Bristol University. He settled in London in 2004.
Writing
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