Walking Still
Winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize. Charles Mungoshi is one of Africa's foremost creative writers - both for adults and children - and a past winner of The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
This collection of short stories covers a range of characters and settings which portray people whose lives have been challenged by war and its aftermath, by changing cultural values, and by family commitments in a world that has lost its certitude. Relationships and locations are concrete, visual, cinematic. The stories question notions of value and responsibility.
ISBN 9780908311996 | 176 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 1997 | Baobab Books, Zimbabwe | Paperback
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Reviews
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'...confirms Charles Mungoshi's position as Zimbabwe's most accomplished writer. His craftsmanship, his deft use of understatement, his profound understanding of people, the broad range of his sympathy, his tremendous sense of humour and his detailed knowledge of his society have established him as one of the most distinguished writers in the world today'.
- The Glendora Review
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'Mungoshi, one of Zimbabwe's finest writers, is at his best here. His clear and sophisticated style is well known.'
- World Literature Today
About the Author
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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.
