Peter Godwin (writer)

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Peter Godwin was a soldier and journalist and is a writer born in 1957 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), of English and Polish Jewish parents.

He wrote Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, a memoir about growing up in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s and 1970s, as the former British colony collapsed to become Zimbabwe. Mukiwa won the Apple/Esquire/Waterstones award, and the Orwell Prize.

In 2006, he published a second memoir, When A Crocodile Eats The Sun, which details the ebbing of his father's life, set to the backdrop of modern-day Zimbabwe's apocalyptic decline, and his discovery of his father's Polish Jewish roots.

Godwin was formerly a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times (London) and later a documentary maker for BBC TV.

His other publications include:

• "Rhodesians never Die" The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c1970 - 1980 (which he co-authored with Ian Hancock).
• "The Three of Us" (co-authored with Joanna Coles.)
• "Wild at Heart - Man and Beast in Southern Africa," (with photographs by Chris Johns.)