Zimbabwe’s Legendary author, Charles Mungoshi, has died at Parirenyatwa hospital.
The 71 year-old novelist has been ill for ten years, from a neurological condition to which he succumbed this morning, his family confirmed.
Mungoshi was a prolific and multi-award winning novelist , poet , short story writer , actor who was internationally recognized and celebrated.
He published 18 books , which include Waiting for the Rain ( 1975), Ndiko Kupindana Kwemazuva(1975), Makunun’unu Maodza Moyo (1970),The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk (1981), Inongova Njake Njake(1980), Coming of the Dry Season (1972)Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness (2013).
Among other accolades, Dr Mungoshi twice won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize of Best Book in Africa and was subsequently invited to meet the Queen of England , Queen Elizabeth.
One of his poems was cureted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a permanent display as public art at their new headquarters in Seattle, Washington, in US ,2011.
In 2003 he was conferred an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Zimbabwe, after winning multiple awards which include Zimbabwe’s 75 best books where he appeared in the top five lists in both Shona and English categories.
