Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga | |
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Dangarembga in November 2006 | |
| Born | 4 February 1959 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 |
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 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.