Hello, this is Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today was, like me, born and raised in Zimbabwe.
He's the author of six nonfiction books, including A White Boy in Africa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire Apple Waterstones Award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award.
His book the Fear was selected by the New Yorker as a Best book of the Year.
He's taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia and served as president of the PEN American Center.
He's an Orwell Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.
He lives in New York City.
And his latest book is a memoir entitled Exit A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional wars.
Peter Godwin, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you, Georgina.
Thank you.
Georgina Godwin, Yes, I expect the listeners have probably made that connection.
Peter Godwin is, in fact, my brother.
And it's really wonderful to have you here across the microphone from me.
I mean, if I were feeling particularly mean, this would be a chance to really, really grill you about our childhood and perhaps get my own back.
But actually, the way I normally start these interviews is talking about people's youth, where they were born, were they born in a literary household, what that was like.
But of course, I know all that to a degree.
You're a little older than me.
And so we had a kind of separate childhood in a way.