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Some Kinds of Wounds

Some Kinds of Wounds

Charles Mungoshi

Newly reissued and widely available outside Africa for the first time, these short stories by Charles Mungoshi, one of Zimbabwe’s most prolific and successful writers, were originally composed in the 1970s. They represent a sample of the author’s earliest fictional endeavours. The collection comprises nine stories which are entitled: ‘The Mount of Moriah’; ‘Who Will Stop the Dark’; ‘The Brother’; ‘White Stones and Red Earth’; ‘Some Kinds of Wounds’; ‘The Victim’; ‘A Need for Shelter’; ‘The Day the Bread Van Didn’t Come’; and ‘The Flood’.

ISBN 9780869221570 | 180 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1980 | Mambo Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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About the Author

Charles Mungoshi

Born into a farming family in 1947, Charles Mungoshi was raised in the Chivhu area of Zimbabwe. After leaving school, he worked with the Forestry Commission before joining Textbook Sales. From 1975 to 1981 he worked at the Literature Bureau as an editor, and at Zimbabwe Publishing House for the next five years. In 1985-87 he was Writer in Residence at the University of Zimbabwe, and since then he has worked as a free-lance writer, script writer and editor.

Charles Mungoshi has written novels and short stories in both Shona and English, as well as two collections of children's stories, Stories from a Shona Childhood and One Day Long Ago (Baobab Books, 1989 and 1991); the former won him the Noma Award. He has also continued to write poetry and has one published collection: The Milkman doesn't only deliver Milk (Baobab Books, 1998). He has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) twice, in 1988 and 1998, for two collections of short stories: The Setting Sun and the Rolling World (Heinemann, 1987) and Walking Still (Baobab Books, 1997). Two of his novels: Waiting for the Rain (Heinemann 1975) and Ndiko kupindana kwa mazuva (Mambo Press, 1975) received International PEN awards.

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