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I couldn't have stayed on in that House of Hunger where every morsel of sanity was snatched from you the way some kinds of bird snatch food from the very mouths of babes. And the eyes of that House of Hunger lingered upon you as though some indefinable beast was about to pounce upon you.

Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera

Born: June 4, 1952

Died: August 18, 1987 (aged 35)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

The House of Hunger (1978)
Black sunlight (1980)
The black insider
Cemetery of mind
Mindblast

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