Wilson Katiyo (1947–2003) was born in Mutoko, in what is now Zimbabwe. As a child he lived and worked among different members of his extended family, experiences that later shaped his fiction. In 1965 he fled Rhodesia after harassment by the security forces, escaping first to Zambia, where he was supported by the Hodgkin family, before continuing to Britain to pursue his studies. He studied Chemistry at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Katiyo’s novels A Son of the Soil (1976) and Going to Heaven (1979) were written during his years in Europe and are partly autobiographical, tracing the journey of Alexio from rural Rhodesia into exile. A Son of the Soil became the first Zimbabwean novel to be set on the Cambridge Overseas “O” Level syllabus and gained international recognition.
After Independence Katiyo returned to Zimbabwe, working as an industrial chemist, film producer, and later as the first editor of the relaunched Moto magazine in 1982. He later lived in Paris and London, continuing to write until his illness in 1999. He died in 2003, leaving a lasting legacy in Zimbabwean literature.
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