Dambudzo Marechera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Zimbabwean writer
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Place of Birth: Rusape, Manicaland, Zimbabwe
About Dambudzo Marechera
- Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet.
- His short career produced a book of stories, two novels (one published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry (also posthumous).
- He was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his behaviour in the universities he was expelled from which were stated by multiple accounts.
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