Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gweru) is an Zimbabwean novelist.[1]
He studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government.[2] He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with an MA in Creative Writing, in 1985.[3][4]
He won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region.[5]