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Wilson Katiyo

Died in 2003

Wilson Katiyo was born in 1947 in Mutoko. An activist from his time at Fletcher High School, harassed by the security forces, he left Rhodesia in 1965 and studied chemistry at Queen Mary College in London, where he wrote in exile. Having returned in 1980 after independence, he was an industrial chemist, a film producer and a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Information. He left again for Europe in 1987, lived in Paris and London, and died in 2003, leaving a third novel unfinished.

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