Writing Now
More Stories from Zimbabwe
Prize winner at the 2006 Zimbabwe Book Publishers' Literary Awards.
The sequel to the award-winning Writing Still, this new collection of stories paints an engaging - and sometimes challenging - picture of contemporary life and concerns in Zimbabwe.
Like its predecessor, Writing Now combines well-established writers - Chinodya, Mupfudzi, Eppel, Chingono - with several new voices. Although the stories emerge from lives of economic hardship and privation, their tone is by no means uniformly. Zimbabwean writers continue to demonstrate that sharp humour and surreal fantasy can grow from the bleakest of roots.
ISBN 9781779220431 | 324 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback
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About the Editor
- Irene Staunton
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Irene Staunton began work in publishing in London with John Calder publishers in the 1970s. Returning to Zimbabwe after its independence, she was an editor at the Government Curriculum Development Unit. In 1987, she co-established Baobab Books, which rapidly acquired a reputation as an exciting literary publisher. In 1999, she left Baobab to co-found Weaver Press. She was also a long-standing editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series.
