Dambudzo Marechera lives in Port Meadow and writes The House of Hunger
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cIKvpzmd8X8
In this episode, recorded in Port Meadow on a freezing December evening, Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu explains to Dr Niall Munro how Marechera came to live in a tent in one of Oxford's large parks, Port Meadow, in the north of the city.
Marechera said that he wrote much of his famous book, The House of Hunger (originally titled 'At The Head Of The Stream'), whilst living in the tent. Tinashe talks about the opening of the novella, which draws on Marechera's childhood experiences in Zimbabwe, and considers how some of the themes explored there might be linked to the author's experiences in Oxford.
