Brian Chikwava

In a time of mass migration

Brian Chikwava is a Zimbabwean writer and musician. He studied engineering at the University of Bristol and his short story Seventh Street Alchemy won the 2004 Caine Prize for African writing in English. His celebrated debut novel, Harare North, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009. He was awarded a Charles Pick Fellowship in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and lives in London.