Chenjerai Hove
The Literature of Social Justice: A Reading and Conversation with Chenjerai Hove, Miami: City of Refuge Writer-in-Residence

This event is free and open to the public.

Chenjerai Hove, one of Africa’s leading literary voices, has lived in exile since 2001, when his passport was forcibly taken away by the government of his native Zimbabwe. A novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and playwright who writes in English and in his native Shona, Hove’s work has been translated into eight languages. While in exile working as a columnist, translator and university lecturer, he has fearlessly been on the frontline of resistance to the kinds of injustices and abuses that precipitate wars and conflicts, writing to provide a voice to the voiceless in his beloved homeland.

Hove is now writer-in-residence at the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. In 2009, the Center joined the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), establishing Miami as a City of Refuge with the support of Miami Dade College and the Knight Foundation. ICORN is dedicated to protecting the rights and freedoms of writers who have consistently been targets of politically motivated threats and persecution in their native lands by relocating them to designated Cities of Refuge around the world.

Wednesday,
May 5, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
Room 2106 (Bldg. 2, 1st Floor)

This event is free and open to the public.