# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-chikwava
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:55:31.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-chikwava"
name: "Brian Chikwava"
slug: "brian-chikwava"
description: "Brian Chikwava is a Zimbabwean writer and musician. His short story \"Seventh Street Alchemy\" was awarded the 2004 Caine Prize for African writing in English; Chikwava became the first Zimbabwean to do so. He has been a Charles Pick fellow at the University of East Anglia, and lives in London. He continues to write in England and put out an album titled Jacaranda Skits."
tagline: "Zimbabwean writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Chikwava_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.603924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chikwava"
    title: "Brian Chikwava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chikwava"
    title: "Brian Chikwava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chikwava"
    title: "Brian Chikwava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chikwava"
    title: "Brian Chikwava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chikwava"
    title: "Brian Chikwava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4963339"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump