Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels, a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry. His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.

4 June 1952

Born on the same birth date (4 June 1952): Bronisław Komorowski

Born on the same birth day (4 June): Abel Kirui • Andrea Jaeger • Bar Refaeli • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim • Dave Pybus • Federico Erba • Gabriel Arcand • Henning Carlsen • Keith David • Kimberley Busteed • Krzysztof Hołowczyc • Modibo Keïta • Nictzin Dyalhis • Nils Kihlberg • Noah Wyle • Roman Miroshnichenko • Russell Brand • Ruth Westheimer • Zacharie Robutel de La Noue

Born in the same month (June 1952): Bob Neill • David Garrison • Dianna Melrose • Donnie Van Zant • Gino Vannelli • Graham Greene (actor) • Judith Bingham • Junior Brown • Liam Neeson • Madan Bhandari • Martin Gerschwitz • Mihaela Loghin • Mike Milbury • Olive Morris • Pat Summitt • Tim Finn • Uzi Hitman • Vikram Seth