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.
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