Born into a farming family in 1947, Charles Mungoshi was raised in the Chivhu area of Zimbabwe. After leaving school, he worked with the Forestry Commission before joining Textbook Sales. From 1975 to 1981 he worked at the Literature Bureau as an editor, and at Zimbabwe Publishing House for the next five years. In 1985-87 he was Writer in Residence at the University of Zimbabwe, and since then he has worked as a free-lance writer, script writer and editor.

Charles Mungoshi has written novels and short stories in both Shona and English, as well as two collections of children's stories.

Source : Poetry International

Bibliography

Coming of the Dry Season (1972)
Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuva (1975)
Waiting for the Rain (1975)
Makunun'unu Maodzamoyo ("Brooding Breeds Despair"; 1977)
Some Kind of Wounds (1980)
Inongova Njake Njake (1980)
Kunyarara Hakusi Kutaura? (1983)
The Setting Sun and Rolling World (1987)
Stories from a Childhood (1989)
One Day Long Ago: More Stories from a Shona Childhood (1991)
Walking Still (short stories; 1997)
The Milkman Doesn't Only Deliver Milk (1998)
Branching Streams flow in the dark (2013)