![]() ![]() From the ages of two to six, Dangarembga lived in England, while her parents pursued higher education. ![]() Her mother, Susan Dangarembga, was the first black woman in Southern Rhodesia to obtain a bachelor's degree, and her father, Amon, would later become a school headmaster. Tsitsi Dangarembga was born on 4 February 1959 in Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a small town where her parents taught at the nearby mission school. In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. 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. ![]() Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression, 2021 German Film and Television Academy Berlin Ĭommonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa section, 1989 ![]()
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