Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera (* June 4, 1952 in Vengere Township, Rusape (then Rhodesia ); † August 18, 1987 in Harare, Zimbabwe; born Tambudzai Marechera ) was a Zimbabwean writer and poet who wrote in English.

Life

Dambudzo Marechera was born Tambudzai Marechera and baptized with the name Charles William Marechera 1965 Anglican. He grew up in squalid conditions in a black ghetto and lost with 13 years his father. After visiting the St. Augustine's Mission School in Penhalonga he got a scholarship to the University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe ), where he studied from 1972 literature. Because of his involvement in the anti-colonial movement in 1973 he had to leave the university. Through a renewed scholarship he was able to study further in 1974 at New College (Oxford), but was forcibly expelled because of his difficult personality 1976. Dambudzo Marechera lived thereafter supported by friends as unemployed freelance writer without a permanent residence in London.

Already with his first collection of short stories, The House of Hunger ( published in 1978 ), in which he describes his youth in Rhodesia and experiences as Africans in the UK, he was awarded a literary prize of the newspaper The Guardian. There followed in 1980 a narrative Black Sunlight, then his manuscripts were often rejected by publishers.

1982 Dambudzo Marechera returned to the now independent state of Zimbabwe, but came with the new political conditions can not cope under Robert Mugabe. He lived at first on the road or at friends until in 1984 he got his own apartment in Harare. In 1987 he was diagnosed with AIDS. In connection with pneumonia, he died of it on 18 August 1987 in Zimbabwe's capital.

Flora Veit- Wild and other items published in the 1990s still searchable stories, short stories and poems by Dambudzo Marechera.

Works

  • The House of Hunger. Heinemann, London, 1978; dass with subtitles A Novella & Short Stories. Pantheon, New York, 1979 ( and others) House of hunger. Narratives ( Translated from English by Claus Peter Dressler ... ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981 ( Edition Suhrkamp, 1062 = NF, 62) ISBN 3-518-11062-4
  • The skin of time ( from the English by Wolfgang Gehrmann ). Graphium Press, Wuppertal, 1989, ISBN 3-927283-00-2
  • Black Insider ( from the English by Beate Horlemannn. With the Preface to the Engl. Edition of Flora Veit- Wild ). Horlemann -Verlag, Unkel 1993, ISBN 3-927905-65-8
  • Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera. Edited by Flora Veit- Wild. Baobab, Harare 1992, ISBN 0-86543-732-7, ISBN 0-86543-733-5 ( paperback )
  • Scrapiron blues. compiled and ed. by Flora Veit- Wild. Baobab, Harare 1994, ISBN 0-908311-70-2
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