Memory chirere biography
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Memory Chirere
Memory Chirere is a Zimbabwean academic, award-winning author and literary critic.
Education
Career
Memory Chirere published his debut poetry anthology Bhuku Risina Basa Nekuti Rakanyorwa Masikati in 2014. The anthology received positive reviews from The Herald and NewsDay.[2][3]
Books & Short Stories
Chirere's short stories are published in Nomore Plastic Balls (1999), A Roof to Repair (2000), Writing Still (2003) and Creatures Great and Small (2005). [4]
Books
He has published short storybooks
- Somewhere in This Country (2006)
- Tudikidiki (2007)
- Toriro and His Goats (2010).
- Together with Prof Maurice Vambe, he compiled and edited a full volume critical text on Charles Mungoshi called: Charles Mungoshi: A Critical Reader (2006).[4]
- Bhuku Risina Basa Nekuti Rakanyorwa Masikati (2014)[2]
- He also has a chapter in Reading Marechera[5]
- His early Shona poems appear
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Memory Chirere reviews ‘is this Love?’ a book written by Yvonne Vera’s mother Ericah Gwetai
The author becomes a familiar storyteller from next door. For me, Gwetai’s style comes very close to Barbra Kimenye’s, especially the stories in Kalasanda and Kalasanda Revisited.
Published: 2022, (revised edition; 2023) in Mutare, Zimbabwe
It is very easy to become absorbed in Ericah Gwetai’s collection of eleven short-short stories called ‘is this Love?’ Gwetai creates effortless and memorable ‘situations’ for her new stories.
She uses a very simple language. As you read, you may forget that you are dealing with a book. It is as if you are listening to stories being told gradually by the fireside by a cunning old woman.
The author becomes a familiar storyteller from next door. For me, Gwetai’s style comes very close to Barbra Kimenye’s, especially the stories in Kalasanda and Kalasanda Revisited.
Just picture this situation: A man is danci
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Today I feature a writer I think is an important force in Zimbabwean literature. We discuss books and writing frequently bygd email or over the phone, and it fryst vatten a great honor that he agreed to share his reading list and to talk about his process here. Memory Chirere teaches literature and creative writing a the University of Zimbabwe. He has worked with young writers through workshops and literary events. He enjoys reading and writing short stories and some of his are published in Nomore Plastic Balls (1999), A Roof to Repair (2000), Writing Still (2003) and Creatures Graet and Small (2005). He has published short story books: Somewhere in This Country (2006), Tudikidiki (2007)and Toriro and His Goats (2010).Together with Prof Maurice Vambe, he compiled and edited (so far the only full volume critical text on Mungoshi called) Charles Mungoshi: A Critical Reader. He blogs at Kwachirere.
Memory Chirere's Reading List
1. ‘Mambo Press Book of Verse’ compi