MUNGOSHI, Charles L.

MUNGOSHI, Charles L. Zimbabwean, b. 1947. Genres: Novellas/Short stories, Novels. Career: Novelist, short-story writer, poet, editor, and actor. Textbook Sales (booksellers), Harare, Zimbabwe, junior invoicing clerk, 1969-74; Rhodesian Forestry Commission, Forest Research Station, Penhalonga, research assistant, 1967-69; Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, literary editor, 1981-85, director/creative writing editor, 1987-; University of Zimbabwe, writer-in-residence, 1985-87; The Literature Bureau, Harare, assistant literary editor, 1981-85. Voluntary creative writing and drama instructor in annual one-week workshop sponsored by Ecumenical Arts Association of Zimbabwe. Actor in radio plays, 1971-, and on Zimbabwe Television's Local Drama Programme, 1985. Founder and chair, Highfield Drama Club, Highfield Community Centre, Harare, 1969-73. Participant in seminars and conferences for groups; Zimbabwe International Book Fair; Cultural Workers of Southern Africa, Botswana; British Council, Cambridge; and New Zealand Arts Festival, Wellington. Publications: IN SHONA: Makunun'unu Maodzamwoyo (novel), 1970; Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuva (novel), 1975; Inongova Njakenjake (play), 1981; Kunyarara Hakusi Kutaura? (novel), 1983. IN ENGLISH: Coming of the Dry Season (short stories), 1972; Waiting for the Rain (novel), 1975; The Milkman Doesn't Only Deliver Milk: Poems (verse), 1980; Some Kinds of Wounds and Other Short Stories (short stories), 1980; The Setting Sun and the Rolling World (short stories), 1987; One Day, Long Ago: More Stories from a Shona Childhood, 1991. OTHER: (trans.) N. Thiongo, Tsanga Yembeu, as A Grain of Wheat, 1988. Contributor of poetry to anthologies. Author's work has been translated into Hungarian, German, Bulgarian, Russian, and Dutch. Address: 47/6156 Uta Crescent, Zengeza 1, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe.