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Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975) is a Zimbabwean poet born in Lusaka, Zambia, to Zimbabwean parents. He was brought up in Zimbabwe on his family's farm – 50 km (30 mi) west of the capital Harare. He attended St George's College, Harare. He studied in France and the Netherlands. After his studies he returned to Zimbabwe and worked as a journalist, then moved to an institute dedicated to the development of African screenplays. Muzanenhamo's first collection of poems, Spirit Brides, was published by Carcanet Press in 2006, [1] [2] and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize in 2006. [3]
Muzanenhamo won the African Poetry Book Fund's 2022 Luschei Prize for African Poetry for Virga, [4] his fourth collection of poetry, which was also a Brittle Paper notable book of the year, an Irish Times Best Poetry Book of the Year, and a Poetry Society Autumn Recommendation. [5]
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Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975) is a Zimbabwean poet born in Lusaka, Zambia, to Zimbabwean parents. He was brought up in Zimbabwe on his family's farm – 50 km (30 mi) west of the capital Harare. He attended St George's College, Harare. He studied in France and the Netherlands. After his studies he returned to Zimbabwe and worked as a journalist, then moved to an institute dedicated to the development of African screenplays. Muzanenhamo's first collection of poems, Spirit Brides, was published by Carcanet Press in 2006, [1] [2] and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize in 2006. [3]
Muzanenhamo won the African Poetry Book Fund's 2022 Luschei Prize for African Poetry for Virga, [4] his fourth collection of poetry, which was also a Brittle Paper notable book of the year, an Irish Times Best Poetry Book of the Year, and a Poetry Society Autumn Recommendation. [5]