Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin is a writer born in 1957 in Southern Rhodesia (today the Zimbabwe), parents of English origin and Jewish Polish.

He wrote his memories, Mukiwa: In White Servant boy in Africa , published in 1996. It speaks there about its childhood in Rhodesia during the years 1960 and 1970, about the disintegration of Rhodesia and its time spent as a soldier during the Second Chimurenga, the war between the white authorities and the Blacks. The book gained the price Apple/Esquire/Waterstones and the price Orwell.

In 2006 it publishes its seconds memories, When has Crocodile Eats the Sun , which speaks about the end of the lifetime of his/her father on bottom of the current decline of Zimbabwe.

He was the corresponding foreigner for the Sunday Times of London and later he carried out the documentary ones for BBC. He taught with the Université Princeton and works today with the New School of New York.

Works

Books

Rhodesians Never Die: The Impact off War and Political Changes one White Rhodesia C. 1970-1980 , in collaboration with Ian Hancock, Oxford University Press, 1993
Mukiwa: With White Servant boy in Africa , Picador, 1996,
The Three off Custom: In New Life in New York , in collaboration with Joanna Adhesives, HarperCollins & St Martin' S Near, 1999,
Wild At Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa , with photographs of Chris Johns, National Geographic Books, 2002,

Southern Africa: The future of a wild world , National Geographic Books, 2003,

When has Crocodile Eats the Sun , Picador, 2007,

Cinema

Africa Unmasked , documentary, 2002

See too

References

These bonds were visited on April 5th, 2007. To update where possible.

Card on the '' Contemporary Africa Database ''
Interview with '' The Independent '', March 9th, 2007
Small card on the site of one of its publishers

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