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Blind Moon
  Fahamu (27)
Reviewer: Patrick Burnett

 

The Standard
September 24, 2004
Reviewer: Fanuel Jongwe

 

World Literature Today, 79:1
Jan-April 2005
Reviewer: James Gibbs


Chairman of Fools
 

Fahamu
Sept 25, 2005
Reviewer: Karoline Kemp

 

Saturday Herald
November 5, 2005
Reviewer: Wonder Guchu

 

Southern Times
November 20, 2005
Reviewer: Memory Chirere


Fools, thieves and other dreamers: stories from Francophone Africa

The African Review of Books
2003
Reviewer: Irene Madonko

The Mirror
Nov 24, 2002
Reviewer: Anne Derges


Laughing Now: New Stories from Zimbabwe

The Herald
Feb 20, 2008
Reviewer: Richmore Tera

Author's blog
Feb 2008
Reviewer: Petina Gabbah

Masimba
  The Financial Gazette
January, 2005
Reviewer: Sheuneni Kurasha


  The Standard
January 9, 2005
Reviewer: Fanuel Jongwe



Not Another Day
 

The Sunday Mirror
May 21, 2006
Reviewer: Phillip Chidavaenzi
Sunday Mirror, May 21, 2006


Purple Hibiscus
  Mukai Jesuit Journal for Zimbabwe
May, 2007
Reviewer:
Anthony Chennells

 

The Times Literary Supplement Online
Seven reviews posted by various authors, 2004


The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
  insight Namibia
Oct 2004
Reviewer: Erika von Wietersheim

  Sister Namibia, 14 (amended)
Jan-Feb, 2002
Reviewer: Jane Katjavivi


Sign and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera
  New Directions in African Literature
Reviewer: Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo

  http://www.postcolonialweb.org/zimbabwe/vera/hunter1.html
Reviewer: Eva Hunter

Journal of Southern African Studies
December 2003
Reviewer: Tony Simones da Silva

Research in African Literatures
Spring 2004
Reviewer: Neil Ten Kortenaar, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Wasifiri
Spring 2005
Reviewer: Caroline Rooney


Sketches of High Density Life
  The Southern Times
January 9, 2005
Memory Chirere

  The Sunday Mirror
January 23, 2005
Reviewer: Phillip Chidavaenzi


  Trends Magazine
June 2005
Reviewer: Philbert Khumalo


Stained Earth
  Zimbabwe Netzwerk Rundbrief, Nr. 48, Bielefeld (Germany) Mai 2006
Reviewer: Annelie Klother


The Stone Virgins
 

http://www.itsbho.com
Reviewer: Geoff Wisner

Arts Events List
May 15, 2002
Reviewer: Vivienne Hamblin

The Boston Globe
Feb 02, 2003

Reviewer: Eric Grunwald

The Detroit Free Press
May 04, 2003

Reviewer: Jeff Guinn

Financial Gazette
May 09, 2002
Reviewer: Grace Mutandwa

Financial Gazette
May 23, 2002
Interview with Yvonne Vera

Journal of Southern African Studies
December 2003
Reviewer: Ranka Primorac

Mail & Guardian
Sept 27, 2002

Reviewer: Jane Rosenthal


Sunday Independent
Nov 17, 2002
Reviewer: Robert Muponde



Strife
  Mail & Guardian winter reading
July 13-19 , 2007
Reviewer: Percy Zvomuya

  Mukai Jesuit Journal for Zimbabwe
May, 2007
Reviewer:
Osker Wermter, SJ

  Pambazuka News
March, 2007

 

The Sunday Nation
November 25, 2007
Reviewer: Lennox Odiemo-Munara



The Uncertainty of Hope
  The Daily Dispatch Online
July, 2008
Reviewer: Taralyn Bro

  The Herald
April, 2008

 

Litnet – ‘The African Library’
Entry No.61, March 2008
Reviewer: Annie Gagiano

  Mukai – Vukani
July, 2007
Reviewer: Oskar Wermter, SJ

  The Standard
May, 2007
Interview with the author

  The Zimbabwean
April, 2007


Versions of Zimbabwe: new approaches to literature and culture
  Fahamu
August 2005

  Project Muse: Scholarly Journals on Line
Reviewer: Flora Veit-Wild

 

The Zimbabwean
w/e Saturday 10, 2005

Reviewer: Flora Veit-Wild


Writing Now: More Stories from Zimbabwe
  African Book Publishing Record
2008
Reviewer: James J. Zaffiro


  Desicritics.org
February 12, 2007
Reviewer: Gordon Hauptfleisch


  The Herald
October 15, 2005
Reviewer: Memory Chirere

Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe

2004 Caine Prize Winner Announced
July 19, 2004
Brian Chikwava, from Zimbabwe, has won the fifth Caine Prize for African Writing for ‘Seventh Street Alchemy’ from Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare 2003. The result was announced by the Chair of the judges, Alvaro Ribeiro, at a dinner held this evening (Monday, 19 July) in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Brian is the first winner of the Prize from Zimbabwe.

The African Review of Books
2003
Reviewer: Richard Bartlett

Business Tribune
Sept 25, 2003
Reviewer: Kamurai Mudzingwa


  Litnet – African Library
Reviewer:Annie Gagiano

The Mail & Guardian
July 16-23, 2004
Reviewer: Sarah Kiguwa

The Scotsman
July 19, 2004
Zimbabwean Author Wins Caine Prize

Wasifiri
Spring 2005
Reviewer: Caroline Rooney

Zimbabwe Netzwerk Rundbrief
October, 2004

Reviewer: Annelie Klother


Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture:
A Retrospective 1957-2004
 

Sunday Mirror
Sept 25, 2005
Reviewer: Laura Chiweshe



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