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Tsitsi Dangarembga

(1959) Writer Zimbabwe

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Tsitsi Dangarembga is a writer from Zimbabwe, best known for Nervous Conditions.

Quick Facts About Tsitsi Dangarembga

Born
February 14, 1959
Nationality
Zimbabwe
Profession
Writer
Notable works
Nervous Conditions
Spouse
Olaf Koschke

About Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga 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 honours, 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; her conviction was later overturned.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association PEN Pinter Prize BBC 100 Women

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