Florida Center for the Literary Arts About Chenjerai Hove Reflections Published Works Press Coverage Current Writings
 
 
Up in Arms
(Zimbabwe Pub. House, 1982) Out of Print
Description: In the late 1970s, Hove taught at rural schools and witnessed horrific aspects of the war of liberation, an experience registered in the anger and compassion pervading Up in Arms (1982), his first collection of poetry.

Swimming in Floods of Tears
(Gweru: Mambo Press, 1983) Out of Print
Co-author with Lyamba wa Kabika.

Upenyu PaMuzinda WeZimbabwe
Translator (Gweru: Mambo Press, 1984) Out of Print
Description: An archaeological book on Zimbabwe Ruins by Peter Garlake.

Red Hills of Home
(Gweru: Mambo Press, 1984) Out of Print
Poetry

Masimba Avanhu?
(Gweru: Mambo Press, 1986) Out of Print
A novel in author’s indigenous Shona language.

 

Bones
(Harare: Baobab Books, and London: Heinemann, 1988)
ISBN-10: 0908311036
Description: This proclaimed novel is about the sensitive evocation of Marita, a farm- worker, whose only son joined the freedom fighters in Zimbabwe's war of liberation. The poetic language is rich in Shona idiom.
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Shadows
(Harare: Baobab Books and London: Heinemann, 1988)
ISBN-10: 0435905910
Description: The novel was inspired when the author witnessed two young lovers who opted for death instead of life. The two lovers are innocents in a world where people have little control over their lives, struggling to survive in a barren land.
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Shebeen Tales
(Harare: Baobab Books, 1994 and London: Serif)
ISBN-10: 189795932X
Description: A view of author’s country from the ordinary person who, with the help of dry wit and illegal beer, pokes fun at the rich and mighty.
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Guardians of the Soil: Interviews with Zimbabwean Elders
(Harare: Baobab Books, 1995) Out of Print
Ancestors
(London: Macmillan/Picador, 1996)
ISBN-10: 0330344900
Description: This novel traces African national history and identity from the turn of the 19th century to the eve of Zimbabwe's independence.

Rainbows in the Dust
(Harare: Baobab Books, 1998) Out of Print
Poetry
Ombres
(France: Actes Sud 1999) Title N/A
Essays in French
Palaver Finish: Essays on Zimbabwean Life
(Harare: Weaver Press, 2002)
ISBN-10: 1779220014
Description: A series of articles which previously appeared in author’s weekly column in The Zimbabwe Standard-in tune with the current climate of political violence and censorship prevalent in Zimbabwe’s political structure.
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Blind Moon
(Harare: Weaver Press, 2003)
ISBN-10: 1779220197
Description: A collection of evocative and defiant poetry, the poems reflect on the plight of the individual citizen and the state of Zimbabwe, the poet's birthplace and spiritual home.
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Les clefs de Ramb
(Rambouillet: Mediatheque Florian, 2004) Title N/A
Description: Children's book written in French about animals taking over a Paris suburb.
Writers, Writing on Conflict and Wars in Africa
(Adonis Press, London & Nordic Africa Institute Sweden, 2009)
ISBN-10: 190670452X
Description: Contributing editor. An invaluable harvest of reflections and perspectives that open the window into an essential, but until now sadly unexplored, facet of the cultural and political experience of African writers.
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Travel News
Title N/A
A theatre play about the women of Zimbabwe, published in Norwegian
 

 

 
   

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