# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dambudzo-marechera
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:03:18.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dambudzo-marechera"
name: "Dambudzo Marechera"
slug: "dambudzo-marechera"
description: "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."
tagline: "Zimbabwean writer (1952-1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Dambudzo_Marechera.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-06-04"
deathDate: "1987-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.91
  momentum:             3.277533039647578
  historical:           13.38758533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Դամբուձո Մարեչերա"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump