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Tsitsi Dangarembga

  • Skill Category: Film Makers
  • Present Address: Zimbabwe
  • Country: Zimbabwe
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Biography

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. She has won other literary honors, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-03-07/noviolet-bulawayo-glory-author-interview

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Africa section, 1989; PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression, 2021

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