Several authors are well known within Zimbabwe and abroad . Charles Mungoshi is renowned in Zimbabwe for writing traditional stories in English and in Shona and his poems and books have sold well with both the black and white communities . Catherine Buckle has achieved international recognition with her two books '' African Tears '' and '' Beyond Tears '' which tell of the ordeal she went through under the 2000 Land Reform . The first Prime Minister of Rhodesia , Ian Smith , wrote two books – '' The Great Betrayal '' and '' Bitter Harvest . '' The book '' The House of Hunger '' by Dambudzo Marechera won an award in the UK in 1979 and the Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing 's first novel '' The Grass Is Singing '' , the first four volumes of '' The Children of Violence '' sequence , as well as the collection of short stories '' African Stories '' are set in Rhodesia . In 2013 NoViolet Bulawayo 's novel '' We Need New Names '' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . The novel tells the story of the devastation and emigration caused by the brutal suppression of Zimbabwean civilians during the Gukurahundi in the early 1980s
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