Christopher Mlalazi (fiction writer, playwright; Zimbabwe) is the author of the two novels, Running With Mother (2012) which has been translated into German, Italian, and Spanish, They Are Coming (2014), and the short story collection Dancing With Life: Tales From the Township (2008), which won the Best First Book award at the National Arts Merit Awards.
To date Mlalazi has written and has had staged eight plays,including the co-written 2008 Oxfam/Novib PEN Freedom of Expression Award winner“The Crocodile Of Zambezi,” , and Election Day, the National Arts Merits Award winner for Outstanding Theatrical Production in 2010 in Zimbabwe. He is a former alumni of the Caine Prize Workshop, Iowa Writers Program (IWP), Nordik-Africa Institute, and the Hannah-Ardent Scholarship(ICORN). He is a holder of an Associate Degree in Computer Science.