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词条 Ignatius Mabasa
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  1. Career

  2. Bibliography

  3. References

Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean writer, storyteller, and musician, who writes mainly in Shona.[1]

He was born in Mount Darwin and grew up on his grandfather's farm there. He attended school in Chitungwiza, where he began to write short stories. He studied Shona and linguistics at the University of Zimbabwe. He was awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Oslo, where he received the M.Phil. in Media, Democracy and Development in 1998. The following year, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach writing and literature in Illinois.

Career

Mabasa's debut novel, the satirical Mapenzi (Fools), won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers’ Association Awards in 2000.[2] His second novel Ndafa Here? (Am I Dead?) won the National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) in 2009.,[3] as did his novel Imbwa yemunhu (You Dog) in 2014.[4][5]

Mabasa has two published collections of poems in Shona: Tipeiwo Dariro and Muchinokoro Kunaka. His short stories include "Paying to Die" and "Some Kind of Madness".

Frequently performing as a storyteller in schools, Mabasa has written several children's books in English and Shona, including The Man, Shaggy Leopard and the Jackal; and other stories, which won the NAMA in 2010.[6] His book Meri Nebhutsu Tsvuku was a NAMA nominee for Outstanding Children's Book in 2013.[7]

In 2010, Mabasa was writer/storyteller in residence at the University of Manitoba in Canada. In 2012, he founded Bhabhu Books, which publishes novels and stories in Shona, Ndebele and other languages. He is one of the first Zimbabwean authors to publish e-books, citing piracy concerns, “No laws are protecting us as a sector. A few days after publishing a book, the pirated version is all over the streets."[8]

Bibliography

Tipeiwo Dariro (1993)

Mapenzi (1999)

Muchinokoro Kunaka" (2004)Ndafa Here?" (2008)

Imbwa yemunhu (2013)

References

1. ^Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. {{ISBN|978-0-415-23019-3}}
2. ^Ignatius T. Mabasa, Poetry International Rotterdam, retrieved 17 October 2013.
3. ^Mtukudzi honoured at NAMAs, New Zimbabwe, 5 February 2009.
4. ^Tinashe Muchuri Reviews Mabasa’s “Imbwa Yemunhu", Munyori Literary Journal, 25 September 2013.
5. ^NAMA Award Winners list, Bulawayo24, 17 February 2014.
6. ^NAMA big winners revealed, New Zimbabwe, 22 February 2010.
7. ^[https://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/02/07/battlelines-drawn-at-nama/ Battlelines drawn at NAMA], NewsDay, 7 February 2013.
8. ^[https://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/09/21/mabasa-goes-online-evade-piracy/ Mabasa goes online to evade piracy], NewsDay, 21 Sept 2013.
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