Steve Chimombo

Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo (born 4 September 1945 Zomba) is a Malawian writer, poet, editor and teacher.[1]

He was educated at Zomba Catholic Secondary School, then at the University of Malawi where he earned a B.A.[2][3] At the University of Wales, he took a teaching diploma in English as a Second Language. At Columbia University in the United States, he was awarded his M.A. and Ph.D. in teaching.[4] After studying at Leeds, England, Chimombo returned to Malawi to edit the literary bulletin Outlook-lookout.[5]

He is a professor of English at Chancellor College in Malawi and is considered one of the nation's leading writers.[4][6] In 1988 his Napolo Poems gained him honorable mention for the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.[7] He is married to Moira Chimombo.[6]

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References

  1. ^ http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=861
  2. ^ Gikandi, Simon (2003). Encyclopedia of African literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 145–146. ISBN 0415230195. 
  3. ^ De Capua, Sarah (2009). Malawi in Pictures. Visual Geography. Second Series. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 70. ISBN 0822585758. 
  4. ^ a b Killam, G. D. (2004). Literature of Africa. Literature as windows to world cultures. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 0313319014. 
  5. ^ Gérard, Albert S. (1986). European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa. Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes. 6. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 970. ISBN 9630538342. 
  6. ^ a b Lee, Christopher J. (Fall 2010). "Malawian Literature after Banda and in the Age of AIDS: A Conversation with Steve Chimombo". Research in African Literatures 41 (3): 33–48. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/summary/v041/41.3.lee.html. Retrieved 2011-02-11. 
  7. ^ "Noma Award for Publishing in Africa". Noma Award. http://www.nomaaward.org/winners.shtml. Retrieved 2011-02-11.