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The American University of Paris (吃瓜tv), the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Cultural Center) in Paris, and the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture (PSAC) are pleased to announce that Tinashe Mushakavanhu has been appointed to the fifth Paris Writer鈥檚 Residency. We look forward to welcoming him to the French capital to work with students at both our universities and to join our community of writers.

Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Zimbabwe born writer currently based in Oxford, England. He is a Junior Research Fellow in African & Comparative Literature at St Anne鈥檚 College, University of Oxford. His short stories and poetry have been anthologised. He is a recipient of the prestigious Miles Morland African Writer鈥檚 Scholarship.

He has previously worked in digital media including as inaugural Group Digital Editor at , Zimbabwe鈥檚 oldest private newspaper, and also participated in a media fellowship at among other places. In 2016 he was selected as a CNN Diversity Fellow. For a long time he was a literary columnist for The Standard newspaper. He is a former Executive Secretary of the now defunct Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe.

His latest nonfiction writing focuses on historical and literary subjects. He is currently working on projects about figures such as , and . Some of his recent books include Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats (2019) and This Man is Dangerous: A Writer in Harare (2023).

The Paris Writer鈥檚 Residency invites practitioners in poetry, prose or other genres of writing to explore interdisciplinary writing possibilities and engage with students at the residency鈥檚 partner institutions. Mushakavanhu will therefore take part in three key events: a day of interaction with creative writing students at 吃瓜tv, a reading and workshop with PSAC master鈥檚 students, and a public lecture at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.

The Paris Writer鈥檚 Residency has previously been held by writer and translator聽Daniel Hahn聽(2018), poet and author聽Sampurna Chatterjee聽(2019), poet and novelist聽Sophie Mackintosh聽(2021), and author and translator E. Tracy Grinnell (2022).