article in Wasafiri magazine in March 2012, Wild replied to the question about why she "did not write a proper Dambudzo Marechera biography" by saying: "My answer was that I did not want to collapse his multi-faceted personality into one authoritative narrative but rather let the diverse voices speak for themselves. But this is not the whole truth. I could not write his life story because my own life was so intricately entangled with his." She then described in detail her very personal involvement with him over an 18-month period. Bibliography 1978: The House of Hunger, Heinemann African Writers Series 1980: Black Sunlight 1984: Mindblast or The Definitive Buddy 1992: The Black Insider 1992: Cemetery of Mind 1994: Scrapiron Blues References Further reading Hamilton, Grant (ed.), Reading Marechera, James Currey, 2013. . Julie Cairnie and Dobrota Pucherova (eds), Moving Spirit: The Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st Century, LIT Verlag Münster, 2012. . Veit-Wild, Flora, "Dambudzo Marechera: A Preliminary Annotated Bibliography". Zambesia, 14:2, 121–29, 1987. Veit-Wild, Flora, Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on his Life and Work. London: Hans Zell, 1992. Harare, University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1993. Veit-Wild, Flora, They Called You Dambudzo, South Africa: Jacana Media Ltd, 2020, Veit-Wild, Flora, and Anthony Chennells (eds), Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera. Trenton, Africa World Press, 1999, . External links Helon Habila, "On Dambudzo Marechera: The Life and Times of an African Writer", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2006. Chris Power, "A brief survey of the short story, part 54: Dambudzo Marechera", The Guardian, 7 January 2014. Tafadzwa Tichawangana, "Dambudzo Marechera – His Life and Work (In His Own Words)", Moonwalking With My Muse, 4 June 2014. "Dambudzo Marechera", Beyond the Single Story, 1 April 2018. Percy Zvomuya, "Dambudzo Marechera: The biggest tree in the savannah", Mail & Guardian, 7 October 2021. 1952 births 1987 deaths 20th-century male writers 20th-century novelists 20th-century poets 20th-century short story writers AIDS-related deaths in Zimbabwe Alumni of New College, Oxford Male novelists Male poets People from Rusape 20th-century squatters University of Zimbabwe alumni Zimbabwean male short story writers Zimbabwean male writers Zimbabwean novelists Zimbabwean poets Zimbabwean short story writers