Reading 2010: Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwean novelist)
Today we feature novelist Tendai Huchu, who has read 51 books so far in 2010. As he admits in his interview, he was a busy reader. He read contemporary works as well as classics; he read award-winning books, but did not necessarily use awards as a criterion to choose what to read, but he would not ignore a book that was making noise, either because it had won an award or was being talked about everywhere. About Tendai Huchu Tendai Huchu, author of The Hairdresser of Harare (Weaver Press, 2010), was born in 1982 in Bindura, Zimbabwe. He attended Churchill High School in Harare and from there went to the University of Zimbabwe to study a degree in Mining Engineering. He dropped out in the middle of the first semester, found work briefly in a casino and from there drifted from one job to the next. Four years later he returned to university and is now a Podiatrist living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Tendai Huchu's 2010 Reading List 1) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke 2) Ev...