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This is a list of Tanzanian writers .
Agoro Anduru (1948–1992), short story writer
[Killam & Rowe]
Mark Behr (1963–2015), fiction writer also connected with South Africa
Fadhy Mtanga (1981– ) novelist, poet and photographer
Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948– ), novelist and critic
[Gikandi]
[Killam & Rowe]
Ebrahim N. Hussein (1943– ), playwright, essayist, poet and translator
[Gikandi]
[Gikandi & Mwangi]
[Killam & Rowe]
Prince Kagwema (1931– ), novelist
[Killam & Rowe]
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020), novelist, poet and scholar
Jacqueline Massawe , poet
[1]
Aniceti Kitereza (1896–1981), novelist
Elieshi Lema (1949– ), novelist, children's author and publisher
[2]
Amandina Lihamba (1944– ), playwright
[3]
Ismael R. Mbise , novelist and academic
[Gikandi]
Penina Mlama (1948– ), playwright
[4]
Sandra A. Mushi (1974– ), fiction writer, poet
[5]
Elvis Musiba (died 2010), businessman and Swahili novelist
[6]
Godfrey Mwakikagile (1949– ), writer and specialist in African studies
Christopher Mwashinga (1965– ), poet, Christian non-fiction writer, and essayist
Ras Nas , musician and poet
Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), politician and writer
[Gikandi & Mwangi]
Nancy Sumari , children's book author and publisher
[7]
Peter Palangyo (1939–1993), novelist
[Gikandi]
[Gikandi & Mwangi]
[Killam & Rowe]
Hammie Rajab , Swahili novelist
[8]
Shaaban Robert (1909–1962), Swahili novelist and poet
[Gikandi]
Emily Ruete (1844–1924), Princess of Zanzibar
Gabriel Ruhumbika (1938– ), novelist and short story writer
[Gikandi]
[Killam & Rowe]
Edwin Semzaba , novelist, playwright, actor and director
Robert Bin Shaaban (1902–1962), poet, author and essayist
Shafi Adam Shafi , Swahili novelist
[9]
Erica Sugo Anyadike , writer of short stories
Richard Mabala , writer of short stories, Columnist and poet (1949– )
[10]
Joseph Marwa , novelist, poet and actor (1999– )
[11]
Nahida Esmail , writer of short stories and social activist
[12]
See also
References
^
Jacqueline Kibacha, social justice poet and activist
Archived 13 March 2011 at the
Wayback Machine .The AfroNews , 15 December 2009.
^
"Elieshi Lema (Tanzania)" . Centre for Creative Arts. Archived from
the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2015 .
^ 'Lihamba, Amandina', in Simon Gikandi & Evan Mwangi, The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 , pp. 94–5.
^ Lee Nichols, Conversations with African Writers: interviews with twenty-six African authors , 1981, pp. 139ff.
^
Profiled in Soma Magazine
^ Judica Tarimo,
EA Community mourns Musiba , IPP Media , 4 November 2010.
^
MEET THE AUTHOR: Writing for a future generation
^ Mikhail D. Gromov,
Swahili Popular Literature in Recent Years
Archived 29 September 2011 at the
Wayback Machine , Swahili Forum 15 (2008):5–13
^ Xavier Garnier, Le roman swahili: la notion de littérature mineure à l'épreuve , 2006, p. 122.
^ cfeditoren (27 February 2022).
"Mabala's 40 years in Tanzania and advice on Kiswahili" . Tanzania . Retrieved 5 January 2023 .
^ Marwa, Quartzy-Joseph (2022).
Irene: The Andromeda . Pencil.
ISBN
9-789-356-10584-3 .
^
"Award-winning Tanzanian Writer Nahida Esmail" . Writers Space Africa . Retrieved 5 January 2023 .
[Killam & Rowe] Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe, eds.,
The Companion to African Literatures . James Currey & Indiana University Press; 2000.
ISBN
0-253-33633-3