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Hove, Chenjerai, 1956-2015

LC control no.n 83014075
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9390.9.H68
Personal name headingHove, Chenjerai, 1956-2015
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Variant(s)Hove, C. (Chenjerai), 1956-2015
Associated countryZimbabwe
Birth date19560209
Death date20150712
Place of birthMazvihwa (Zimbabwe)
Place of deathStavanger (Norway)
Profession or occupationAuthors
Found inHis Up in arms, 1982: t.p. (Chenjerai Hove) p. 4 cover (b. 1956)
Swimming in floods of tears, 1983: t.p. (Chenjerai Hove) cover (C. Hove) p. 4 of cover (Zimbabwean who writes poetry and prose in English and ChiShona)
New York times WWW site, viewed July 24, 2015 (in obituary published July 23: Chenjerai Hove; b. Feb. 9, 1956, Mazvihwa, Rhodesia; d. July 12, Stavanger, Norway, aged 59; one of Zimbabwe's leading writers, whose poems and novels powerfully evoked the struggles of ordinary village folk before and after independence; wrote primarily in English, but also in his native Shona)
Associated languageeng sna