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Peter Godwin is a Zimbabwean journalist, author, and memoirist. He was born on 4 December 1957 in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is best known for his memoirs, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa.
Godwin attended the University of Cambridge, where he studied law. He then worked as a journalist for the BBC, The Sunday Times, and The Guardian. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Godwin has written several books, including The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe, The Diamond Hunters, and The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe. He has also written a number of memoirs, including Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa.
Godwin has won several awards for his work, including the Alan Paton Award, the James Cameron Prize, and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre.
As of 2021, Peter Godwin's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.
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Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) |
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His wife is Joanna Coles (m. 2001-2019)
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Peter Godwin Net Worth
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Godwin and Coles live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with their sons, Thomas and Hugo, who as of November 2019 were aged 20 and 18 respectively, and with a dog called Phoebe. His daughter, Holly, who was 25 years old as of November 2019, is based in the UK.
In 2012, Godwin was named President of PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world's oldest literary and human rights organisation. On March 20, 2012, Peter Godwin, as the incoming President of PEN American Center, read poetry by the imprisoned, Liu Xiaobo, with outgoing PEN President, Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Godwin's book, The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe (2011), chronicles the systematic campaign of murder and torture unleashed by Zimbabwe's autocratic ruler following his defeat at the polls. Godwin was interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air (NPR) in March 2011 about the situation in Zimbabwe since the 2008 general election.
The Fear was selected as a best book of 2011 by The New Yorker, The Economist, and Publishers Weekly.
Godwin is a contributor to The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. In 2008 he wrote in the Times about the small islands of Likoma and Chizumulu on Lake Malawi, which are lacustrine exclaves of Malawi located in Mozambican territorial waters. He has also reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review.
In 2007, he called for the international community to "make it clear" to South African president Thabo Mbeki "that he, and the new South Africa, have a special moral obligation to help a nearby people who are oppressed and disenfranchised, having been assisted in its own struggle by just such pressure." In 2008, Godwin suggested in The New York Times that the withdrawal of participating countries from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa might persuade Mbeki to use his country's economic power to draw Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe "to an end in weeks rather than months."
In 2006, his second memoir, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, was published. It details the ebbing of his father's life, set to the backdrop of modern-day Zimbabwe, and his discovery of his father's Polish Jewish roots.
In 1997, Godwin published Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa. A memoir about growing up in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s and 1970s during the Rhodesian Bush War, it was described by the Boston Globe as "devastatingly brilliant" and "[o]ne of the best memoirs to come out of Africa." The book won The Orwell Prize in 1997.
Godwin's film The Industry of Death (1993) was an investigation of Thailand's sex industry.
His mother is of English descent and is a former hospital doctor. His father was an engineer and is of Polish Jewish ancestry. His father's immediate family were killed in the Holocaust. Godwin grew up with his family in Rhodesia, where he attended St. George's College. He was conscripted into the British South Africa Police at the age of seventeen to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War. In 1978, his older sister Jain and her fiancé were killed when their car hit an army ambush. He studied Law at Cambridge University and International Relations at Oxford University.
His early books include Rhodesians Never Die: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c1970 – 1980, co-written with Ian Hancock; The Three of Us, co-written with Joanna Coles; and Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa, with photographs by Chris Johns.
Peter Godwin (born 4 December 1957) is a Zimbabwean author, journalist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and former human rights lawyer. Best known for his writings concerning the breakdown of his native Zimbabwe, he has reported from more than 60 countries and written several books. He served as president of PEN American Center from 2012-2015 and resides in Manhattan, New York with his wife, Joanna Coles, who was named Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan in 2012. In 2016 Coles assumed the role of Chief Content Officer at Hearst Media.