Weaver Press

Christopher Mlalazi is the Nordic Africa Institute 2011 Guest Writer in Uppsala Sweden. In 2010 he was the Villa Aurora Guest Writer in Los Angeles, USA. Prolific as a prose writer and playwright, in 2008 he was the co-winner of the Oxfam Novib PEN Freedom of Expression Award at the Hague for theatre, and in 2009 was awarded a NAMA award for his short story collection, Dancing With Life:Tales From The Township. He was nominated for another NAMA for his 2009 novel, Many Rivers. In 2010 he won a NAMA for his play Election Day, which played to full houses. He has also published short stories extensively both in Zimbabwe and internationally. His latest play, Colours of Dreams, also opened to a full house at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in 2011. He was published in Writing Free (2011)