





The Most Famous
Writers from Zimbabwe
Top 7 Zimbabwean Writers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Zimbabweans Writers of all time. This list of famous Zimbabweans Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Alexander McCall Smith
b. 1948
HPI 57.5926 langsBritish writer
- #2

Paula Hawkins
b. 1972
HPI 55.2331 langsBritish novelist
- #3

Tsitsi Dangarembga
b. 1959
HPI 55.0235 langsZimbabwean author and filmmaker
- #4

Chenjerai Hove
1956 - 2015
HPI 46.9716 langsZimbabwean poet and writer (1956–2015)
- #5

Yvonne Vera
1964 - 2005
HPI 45.6815 langsZimbabwean writer (1964–2005)
- #6

NoViolet Bulawayo
b. 1981
HPI 36.4922 langsZimbabwean writer and educator
- #7

Debora Patta
b. 1964
HPI 35.9025 langsSouth African broadcast journalist and editor
