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Tsitsi Dangarembga
Zimbabwean author and filmmaker / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[1] She has 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.[2] In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform.
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![]() Dangarembga in November 2006 | |
Born | (1959-02-04) 4 February 1959 (age 65) Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia |
Occupation | Writer and filmmaker |
Nationality | Zimbabwean |
Education | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; University of Zimbabwe; German Film and Television Academy Berlin; Humboldt University of Berlin |
Notable works | Nervous Conditions (1988) The Book of Not (2006) This Mournable Body (2018) |
Notable awards | Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa section, 1989; PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression, 2021; Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, 2022 |
Spouse | Olaf Koschke |
Children | Tonderai, Chadamoyo and Masimba |
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