Tsitsi Dangarembga | |
|---|---|
 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.[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.
- ^ "The 100 stories that shaped the world". BBC. 22 May 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ Flood, Alison; Cain, Sian (15 September 2020). "Most diverse Booker prize shortlist ever as Hilary Mantel misses out". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2020.