Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He studied law at Cambridge University and international relations at Oxford. He is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary-maker and screenwriter. He is the author of six non-fiction books amongst which Mukiwa , which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire -Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa , which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear: Robert Mugabe and...See more

Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He studied law at Cambridge University and international relations at Oxford. He is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary-maker and screenwriter. He is the author of six non-fiction books amongst which Mukiwa , which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire -Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa , which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe , was selected by the New Yorker as a best book of the year. Peter Godwin has taught writing at Princeton and the New School, and currently teaches at Wesleyan and Columbia. From 2012-15 he served as President of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. @petergodwin See less