Philippa Berlyn

Phillipa was born in 1923 in Chegutu, Zimbabwe. She was a poet as well as a journalist.

Berlyn went to school at Hartley Primary School in Chegutu and high school in Bulawayo, during colonial Rhodesia yaers. She was a Shona linguist, and worked as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. Berlyn was the co-founder of a poetry magazine entitled Two Tone that published local poetry from 1964 to 1982. She translated (with Douglas Livingstone) several Shona poems into English in a publication entitled Eight Shona Poems (1968). Berlyn also wrote Wilson Chivaura: Dreams (1974), as well as a biography of Ian Douglas Smith, former Rhodesian Prime Minister, entitled The Quiet Man (1978).