Internationally lauded Zimbabwean novelist and poet Charles Mungoshi has died aged 71 after a long illness, his family said on Saturday.
According to the family’s statement, he had been ill for more than ten years from a neurological condition to which he succumbed on Saturday morning at the Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare.
His published works included "Coming of the Dry Season", a 1972 collection of short stories which was banned under colonial rule in what was then Rhodesia. His 1975 novel, "Waiting for the Rain" won an International PEN Award, he also won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa.
His legacy will live on in the huge body of literary works from novels and poetry to short story collections that he has left behind. May you rest in peace Charles Munmgoshi.
