Shimmer Chinodya (born 1957 Gwelo, then Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) is a Zimbabwean novelist.^[1]

He studied at Mambo Primary School. He was expelled from Goromonzi after demonstrating against Ian Smith's government.^[when?][2] He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, and from the University of Iowa, with an MA in creative writing, in 1985.^[3]

• 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa region.^[4]
• 2007 National Arts Merit Awards Outstanding Fiction Book for Strife^[5]

• Dew in the Morning. Mambo Press. 1982. ISBN 9780435912062.; Heinemann, 2001, ISBN 978-0-435-91206-2
• Farai’s Girls (1984)
• Child of War (1986)
• Harvest of Thorns (1989)
• Can we talk and other Stories (1998)
• Tale of Tamari (2004)
• Chairman of Fools (2005)
• Strife. African Books Collective. 2006. ISBN 978-1-77922-058-5.
• Tindo's Quest, Longman Zimbabwe (Pvt) (January 2011), ISBN 978-1779034922