Charles Mungoshi born (1947) has written novels and short stories in both Shona and English,as well as two collections of children’s stories, Stories from a Shona Childhood (1989) and One Day Long Ago (1991);the former won him the Noma Award. He has also continued to write poetry and has one published collection: The Milkman doesn’t only deliver milk (1998).He has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) twice, in (1988) and (1998), for two collections of short stories The Setting Sun and the Rolling World (1987) and Walking Still (1997). Two of his novels: Waiting for the Rain (1975) and Ndiko Kupindana Kwa mazuva (1975) received International PEN awards. His short story Sins of the Fathers was translated into Shona for the anthology Mazambuko (2010).
