Panache chigumadzi biography

Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer, scholar, and cultural historian writing across gender, geography and generation.
Panashe Chigumadzi (born 1991) is a Zimbabwean-born journalist, essayist and novelist, who was raised in South Africa.
Dr Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer and historian.

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Panashe Chigumadzi

K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award

Panashe Chigumadzi is a novelist and essayist, born in Zimbabwe and grew up in South Africa. In 2015, her debut novel, Sweet Medicine, was published to both critical and popular acclaim. She writes non-fiction in her capacity as founding editor of Vanguard Magazine, a platform for young black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa and contributor to a number of other South African titles, including City Press, Sunday Times and The Star. She has also been a commentator for international media such as the BBC, The Guardian, Netherlands’ NiewsUur and Germany’s Spiegel. K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award Prior to this, she gained media experience both as a journalist for CNBC Africa and columnist for Forbes Woman Africa, and as a project executive for the Africa Business News Group. In 2015, she became a Ruth First Fellow and is currently completing a Master’s Degree in African Literature at Wits University, Johannesburg. She is curator of the inaugural Abantu Book Festival taking place in December 2016

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Panashe Chigumadzi

Dr Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer and historian. Chigumadzi is the author of These Bones Will Rise Again (2018), a historical memoir reflecting on Zimbabwe's 2017 coup and shortlisted for the 2019 Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction. Her 2015 debut novel Sweet Medicine (Blackbird Books) won the 2016 K. Sello Duiker Literary Award. Chigumadzi was the founding editor of Vanguard Magazine, a platform for black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa. A columnist for The New York Times and contributing editor of the Johannesburg Review of Books, her work has featured in publications including The Guardian, The Washington Post, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Die Zieit, Chimurenga, The Sunday Times, City Press, Africa is A Country, and Transition.

Chigumadzi holds a doctorate from Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies and a master's in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand. Chigumadzi's dissertation "Nineteenth Century Ubuntu: Black

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Panashe Chigumadzi is an essayist and novelist. Her 2015 debut novel Sweet Medicine (Blackbird Books) won the 2016 K. Sello Duiker Literary Award. Her second book, These Bones Will Rise Again (The Indigo Press) was published in June 2018 and shortlisted for the 2019 Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction. Chigumadzi was the founding editor of Vanguard Magazine, a platform for black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa. A columnist for The New York Times, and contributing editor of the Johannesburg Review of Books, her work has featured in titles including The Guardian, Chimurenga, Africa is A Country, Transition, Washington Post and Die Ziet. She is a doctoral candidate in Harvard University’s Departments of African and African American Studies and History.