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Tsitsi Dangarembga

  • Skill Category: Writers
  • Present Address: Harare, 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. 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

Won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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