Peter Godwin (writer)

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name = Peter Godwin
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birth_date = 1957
birth_place = Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
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occupation = Journalist, Author/Memoirist
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spouse = Joanna Coales
children = 3
relatives = Georgina Godwin (broadcaster)
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credits = Foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times

Author of "Mukiwa: White boy in Africa"

Author of "When A Crocodile Eats The Sun"
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Peter Godwin (born 1957 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is a former soldier and journalist. He is of English and Polish Jewish ancestry.

He wrote "Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa", a memoir about growing up in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s and 1970s during the Rhodesian Bush War. "Mukiwa" won the Apple/Esquire/Waterstones award, and the Orwell Prize.

In 2006, he published a second memoir, "When A Crocodile Eats The Sun" [cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/peter-godwin-truth-in-black-and-white-439376.html | title=Peter Godwin: Truth in black and white| publisher=The Independent| date=2007-03-09] , which details the ebbing of his father's life, set to the backdrop of modern-day Zimbabwe, and his discovery of his father's Polish Jewish roots.

Godwin was formerly a foreign correspondent for the "Sunday Times" (London) and later a documentary maker for BBC TV.

Books

*"When A Crocodile Eats The Sun"
*"Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa"
*"Rhodesians never Die" The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c1970 - 1980 (which he co-authored with Ian Hancock).
*"The Three of Us" (co-authored with Joanna Coles.)
*"Wild at Heart - Man and Beast in Southern Africa," (with photographs by Chris Johns.)

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