Brian Chikwava

Brian Chikwava bụ onye odee na onye egwu mba Zimbabwe . Akwụkwọ akụkọ ya dị mkpirikpi "Seventh Street Alchemy" e nyere  ya n'afọ 2004 Caine Prize maka ide Afrika na Bekee; Chikwava ghọrọ onye Zimbabwe mbụ mere ya. Previous winners, Caine Prize website. Ọ bụbu onye Charles Pick ibe na Mahadum East Anglia, ma biri na London. Ọ gara n'ihu na-ede na England ma wepụta abọ egwu akpọrọ Jacaranda Skits . The Literator, Caine Prize for African Writing, The Independent, 22 July 2004.

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A mụrụ Brian Chikwava na Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 'afọ 1971. Ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ na-ebi ebi dị na Bulawayo, na-aga n'ihu na-amụ engineering Civil na Bristol University . Olivia Laing, "'The book will be published in Zimbabwe ... no one will buy it': The novelist: Brian Chikwava", The Observer, 4 January 2009.afọ 2004. Jean-Pierre Orban, "The long trek of Pidgin English in the Western publishing world", Africultures, 31 March 2010.

Chikwava nwetara ihe nrite Caine nke ise maka ide ihe n'Afrika n'afọ 2004 site na obere akụkọ ya "Seventh Street Alchemy" (nke e bipụtara na Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare ṅ'afọ 2003), "2004 Caine Prize Winner Announced", Bellagio Publishing Network, 19 July 2004. onye Zimbabwe mbụ nwetara ihe nrite ahụ. Lovemore Ranga Mataire, "Celebrating Chikwava's literary prowess", The Herald, 6 June 2016. N'ịme ihe nrite ahụ, onye isi oche ndị ọka ikpe, Alvaro Ribeiro, kọwara akụkọ ahụ dị ka: "Akụkọ siri ike nke Brian Chikwava nke Zimbabwe na-ekwu na asụsụ Bekee bụ nke ya, na Bekee nwere àgwà Afrịka. . . . Mmeri maka ọdịnala ogologo nke Zimbabwe na-ede n'ihu ọdịnihu Zimbabwe na-ejighị n'aka!" 

E bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya bụ Harare North n'afọ 2009 site na Jonathan Cape .Harare North page at Penguin Random House. Nnyocha dị mma n'ozuzu ya, na Mary Fitzgerald nke New Statesman na-ede na "n'ime ka nsogbu nke ndị a na-emekarị ka ha dị ndụ, [Chikwava] emeghewo ọnọdụ na-adịghị mma, ma dị mkpa ngwa ngwa, nke mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya".Mary Fitzgerald, "Bright Lights, Big City", New Statesman, 26 March 2009. Ọ na-eto "amamihe na aro" ya, ihe Tod Wodicka, onye dere All Shall Be Well, kwenyere na ya, na-ede na "akwụkwọ site na peeji, ahịrị site na ahịrị, [Chikwava] emeela olu akụkọ zuru oke na nke ziri ezi... jupụtara na ihe ijuanya, obere ihe na-atọ ụtọ, na ezigbo ọkụ-n'afọ... mana nke kachasị mkpa, olu ahụ na-apụta dị ka ihe na-enweghị mgbalị, ya mere eziokwu... ọ bụ nnukwu ihe rụzuru.

Trevor Lewis nke The Sunday Times dere na "Chikwava emeela ka onye na-eme ihe nkiri na-adọrọ adọrọ, onye Bekee na okwu ya na-agbagọ agbagọ na-eme ka ihe dị egwu, ihe na-atọ ọchị", ebe Margaret Busby dere na The Independent: "Chikwavа nwere nkà ịchọta ìhè na ihe ọchị n'ime obi nkoropụ kachasị njọ, na-adọta ọchị ọbụna site na mwute... mgbe ụfọdụ n'etiti ndị edemede otu na-abịa gafee olu pụrụ iche... nke na ọ na-ejide n'ụzọ a na-agaghị echefu echefu. N' uche m, Chikwava yiri ka ọ ga-anọ n'ụdị ahụ. Site na peeji mbụ ruo na nke ikpeazụ, akụkọ obodo nke Harare North na-ejide, na-enye nsogbu, na-akpali akpali, na-atọ ọchị. "Margaret Busby, "Harare North, By Brian Chikwava — Scams, scrapes and survival in a city of refugees", The Independent, 23 April 2009.

N'ikwu okwu banyere Zimbabwe na nnabata ọ kwenyere na akwụkwọ ya ga-enweta, Chikwava kwuru: "Zimbabwe m maara na ọ dịghịzi adị. A ga-ebipụta akwụkwọ ahụ ebe ahụ mana ọ nweghị onye ga-azụta ya. Ọ dịghị onye na-azụrụ akwụkwọ ugbu a. Ha abụghịzi ihe mbụ." 

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