Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa is a writer and storyteller who primarily writes in Shona. Although now well-known as a poet and novelist, Ignatius says, ‘I started telling stories before I could write, re-telling the stories my grandmother told me, and adding new twists to the plot. You could say that this was the process by which I became a creative writer.’ He has published two novels to date: Ndafa Here? and Mapenzi both of which have won local awards, and he has poems and short stories published on various websites. In 2010, Ignatius was the writer and storyteller in residence at the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture at the University of Manitoba in Canada for three and half months. He was published in Writing Free (2011).
You can find more information about him on his personal website: www.pamabasa.com.
