# Dambudzo Marechera

> Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels, a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry. His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed, and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.

*Zimbabwean writer (1952-1987)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1952-06-04
- **Died:** 1987-08-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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