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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 nove…
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culture · Zimbabwean author and filmmaker · writer · film director · playwright · screenwriter · also Tsitsi Dangarembga, Dangarembga
Born 14 February 1959 · Q270837
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2026· 5 entries
“How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?”
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“You feel you are creeping up over the edge of a precipice and that this cliff beckons you; worse, that you have a secret desire to fall over its edge into oblivion and that there is no way to stop that fall because you are the precipice.”
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“You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discouragement up in the glamour of intellect.”
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“He says he wants to go back to Germany,' Nyasha confides. 'As soon as he's finished his doctorate,' she goes on, as though both completion of his research and departure are imminent. You realize she does not know Cousin-Brother-in-Law is mulling another thesis because he is no longer interested in his subject. You are surprised your in-law is behaving in the way you expect your own black men to do, first of all by being so indecisive and then by not telling his wife.”
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga has conviction for protest overturned
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nytimes.com: Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic
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2022· 12 entries
The Guardian: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne Carson and Mary Gaitskill honoured by Royal Society of Literature
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The Harvard Crimson: Radcliffe Fellow Tsitsi Dangarembga Discusses the Consequences of Colonialism on Zimbabweans at Virtual Event
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The Guardian: Tsitsi Dangarembga on Zimbabwe: ‘Every time we say it can’t get any worse, it does’
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The Guardian: Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga found guilty of inciting violence
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Yahoo: Author Dangarembga found guilty in Zimbabwe rights protest
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The Guardian: Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – a woman’s defiant fight to write
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News24: Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga denies incitement charges as trial begins over 2020 protest
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The Guardian: Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – a study in the power of words
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Variety: Berlinale Calls for Acquittal of Zimbabwean Filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga – Global Bulletin
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The Guardian: Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners
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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
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Dangarembga was selected to receive a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for fiction
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2021· 6 entries
dw: Tsitsi Dangarembga on freedom of expression
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The Guardian: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s next work won’t be read by anyone until 2114
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WSLS 10: Zimbabwe's Tsitsi Dangarembga wins prestigious German prize
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2021).
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Awarded PEN Pinter Prize presented by English PEN (2021).
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The Guardian: Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize
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2020· 8 entries
CBC.ca: Tsitsi Dangarembga looks at the dreams and disappointments of post-colonial Zimbabwe in This Mournable Body
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The Guardian: Charges against Tsitsi Dangarembga must be dropped, argue writers
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The Guardian: Tsitsi Dangarembga: 'I am afraid. There have been abductions'
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The Guardian: Booker-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga freed on bail in Zimbabwe
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The Guardian: Booker prize-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested in Zimbabwe
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Awarded BBC 100 Women (2020).
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The Guardian: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – a sublime sequel
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Her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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2019· 1 entry
Dangarembga was announced as a finalist for the St
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2018· 2 entries
By Graywolf Press in the US, and in the UK by Faber and Faber in 2020, described by Alexandra Fuller in The New York Times as "another masterpiece" and by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma in The Guardian as "magnificent
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As one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world
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2016· 1 entry
Was selected by the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center for their Artists in Residency program
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2012· 1 entry
“People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear.”
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2010· 1 entry
Was named education secretary of the Movement for Democratic Change political party led by Arthur Mutambara
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2006· 1 entry
Published her second novel, The Book of Not, a sequel to Nervous Conditions
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2002· 1 entry
Founded the International Images Film Festival
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2000· 1 entry
Dangarembga moved back to Zimbabwe with her family, and continued her work with Nyerai Films
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1992· 1 entry
Founded Nyerai Films, a production company based in Harare
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1991· 1 entry
Which became the highest-grossing film in Zimbabwean history
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1989· 1 entry
Dangarembga went to Germany to study film direction at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin
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1988· 1 entry
In the United Kingdom, and a year later in the United States
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1987· 1 entry
Her play She No Longer Weeps, which she wrote during her university years, was published in Harare
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1985· 2 entries
But experienced difficulties getting it published; rejected by four Zimbabwean publishers, she eventually found a willing publisher in the London-based Women's Press
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Dangarembga's short story "The Letter" won second place in a writing competition arranged by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and was published in Sweden in the anthology Whispering Land
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1980· 1 entry
To Zimbabwe several months before the country's independence
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1977· 1 entry
Went to the University of Cambridge to study medicine at Sidney Sussex College
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1965· 2 entries
Moved with her family to Old Mutare, a Methodist mission near Umtali (now Mutare) where her father and mother took up respective positions as headmaster and teacher at Hartzell High School
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The year of the colony's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-02-14.
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