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): Bill Rowe • Bradley Walsh • Christopher Cockerell • Colette Boky • El DeBarge • Gary Taylor-Fletcher • Horatio Sanz • Judith Malina • Karolos Papoulias • Kazuhiro Yamaji • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • Linda Lingle • Michael Greyeyes • Natalia Vodopyanova • Neil McNab • Oliver Nelson • Paul Samson • Paul Taylor (keyboardist) • Princess Lilibet of Sussex • Raymond Dumais • Ruth Westheimer • Shoji Meguro • Viktor Tikhonov (born 1930) • Vladimir Voevodsky

Born in the same month (June 1952): George Papandreou • Jean-Christophe Rufin • Jeremy Coney • John Goodman • Kristina Abelli Elander • Kōichi Mashimo • Lee Soo-man • Pat Summitt • Pierre Bruneau (journalist) • Satya Pal Jain • Spencer Abraham • Tiiu Aro • Vikram Seth • Yekaterina Podkopayeva