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Peter Godwin was born on 4 December, 1957 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), is a Zimbabwean author, journalist, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Discover Peter Godwin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, Author/Memoirist
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 4 December, 1957
Birthday 4 December
Birthplace Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Nationality 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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1957

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.

1960

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."

1970

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.

Godwin is a contributor to The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, among other publications.

1978

In 1978, his older sister Jain and her fiancé were killed when their car was ambushed by insurgents.

1993

Godwin's film The Industry of Death (1993) was an investigation of Thailand's sex industry.

1997

In 1997, Godwin published Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa.

The book won The Orwell Prize in 1997.

2001

Another sister, Georgina Godwin, has worked as a journalist, broadcast presenter and podcaster, in both Zimbabwe (until 2001) and the UK.

Peter Godwin studied law at Cambridge University and international relations at Oxford University.

Godwin was formerly a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times (London), covering wars in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.

Later he was the chief correspondent for the BBC's foreign affairs program, directing documentaries on Cuba, Czechoslovakia, and the Balkans.

2006

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.

2007

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."

2008

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 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."

2011

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's fourth memoir, Exit Wounds will be published in the second half of 2024.

2012

He served as president of PEN American Center from 2012 to 2015 and resides in Manhattan, New York.

His mother came from an Anglican background in England and she moved to Southern Rhodesia in her twenties, where she was a medical doctor.

His father, Kazimierz Goldfarb, a Polish Jewish engineer moved to the country from England after marrying Godwin's mother.

Godwin's paternal grandparents and aunts were murdered at Treblinka extermination camp in the Holocaust.

For fear of anti-semitism, Godwin's father did not tell his children about his Jewish background for decades and instead went by the name George Godwin.

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 2012, Godwin was named President of PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world's oldest literary and human rights organisation.

On 20 March 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 is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Orwell Fellow, and a MacDowell Fellow, and has also taught writing at the New School, Princeton University, and Columbia University.

2019

Godwin was married to Joanna Coles, living together in 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, Phoebe.

His daughter, Holly, who was 25 years old as of November 2019, is based in the UK.

In July 2019, Coles filed for divorce from Godwin.