Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera was born on 4 June 1952 in Vengere, a township of Rusape, the son of a morgue attendant and a domestic servant. A pupil at the St Augustine's mission in Penhalonga, he was expelled from the University of Rhodesia after a student demonstration, then, as a scholarship student, from New College, Oxford. He then lived in England with no fixed address, writing on park benches, returned to Zimbabwe in the early eighties and led the same wandering life there until his death, in Harare, on 18 August 1987.

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• Short storiesThe House of HungerDambudzo Marechera · 1978Literature