New York State English Council

Peter Godwin, a former soldier and journalist, studied law at Cambridge and International Relations at Oxford.  Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, his memoir about growing up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the Rhodesian Bush War, won the Orwell Prize.  His second memoir, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (2006), set to the backdrop of modern-day Zimbabwe, details his discovery of his father's Polish Jewish roots.  Godwin has also been a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times (London) and a documentary maker for the BBC.