Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Dangarembga in November 2006
Born	(1959-02-04) 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 ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli February dabaanahi dali, yuuni 1959) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ Zimbabwean salinwaɣili sasabira, kpɛrigu sabira, ni sinii niŋda . O debut novel, yuli booni Nervous Conditions ( din daa yina yuuni 1988), din daa nyɛ tuuli din daa bahi ka di sabbu nyɛ silimiinsili, ka ŋun daa bahili nyɛ gbansabinli bipuɣingi daa nyɛ ŋun be Zimbabwe, ka di daa nyɛ BBC nim ni yɛli shɛli yuuni 2018 ni di nyɛla buku din pahi buku nim kɔbigu din maani duniya la ni yini. O nyɛla ŋun daa di sabbu shee kpaŋmaŋ pina kamani ; Commonwealth Writers' Prize n-ti pahi ni PEN Pinter Prize. Yuuni 2020 ni, o buku din yuli daa booni This Mournable Body la daa nyɛla bɛ ni daa yihi shɛli yuli Booker kpaŋmaŋ pina la ni. Yuuni 2022 ni, Dangarembga daa nyɛla bɛ ni daa duhi so kootu ka di daliri nyɛmi ni o daa sabirila subbu nim ka di nyɔɣiri bɛ ya gomdanti lala saha ŋo.

Selected awards and honours

• Yuuni 1989: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa region) for Nervous Conditions
  • Yuuni 2005: Kare Kare Zvako wis the Short Film Award and Golden Dhow at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, and the African Short Film Award at the Milan Film Festival
• Yuuni 2018: Nervous Conditions named by the BBC as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world
• Yuuni 2020: This Mournable Body shortlisted for the Booker Prize
• Yuuni 2021: PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression
• Yuuni 2021: 2021 Peace Prize from the German book publishers and booksellers association
• Yuuni 2021: Honorary Fellowship of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
• Yuuni 2021: PEN Pinter Prize from English PEN
• Yuuni 2022: Windham-Campbell Literature Prize (fiction)
• Yuuni 2022: Royal Society of Literature International Writer

List of works

Written works

• The Third One (play)
• Lost of the Soil (play), yuuni 1983
• The Letter (short story), yuuni 1985, published in Whispering Land
• She No Longer Weeps (play), yuuni 1987
• Nervous Conditions (novel), yuuni 1988, ISBN 9781919772288
• The Book of Not (novel), yuuni 2006, ISBN 9780954702373
• This Mournable Body (novel), yuuni 2018, ISBN 9781555978129
• Black and Female (essays), yuuni 2022, ISBN 9780571373192

Filmography

• Neria (1993) (story writing)
• The Great Beauty Conspiracy (1994)
• Passport to Kill (1994)
• Schwarzmarkt (1995)
• Everyone's Child (1996)
• The Puppeteer (1996)
• Zimbabwe Birds, with Olaf Koschke (1988)
• On the Border (2000)
• Hard Earth – Land Rights in Zimbabwe (2001)
• Ivory (2001)
• Elephant People (2002)
• Mother’s Day (2004)
• High Hopes (2004)
• At the Water (2005)
• Growing Stronger (2005)
• Kare Kare Zvako (2005)
• Peretera Maneta (2006)
• The Sharing Day (2008)
• I Want a Wedding Dress (2010)
• Ungochani (2010)
• Nyami Nyami Amaji Abulozi (2011)

External links

• A recording of Dangarembga's reading of her "Electing Zimbabwe"
• Tɛmplet:Books and Writers
• Tsitsi Dangarembga at IMDb
• "Statement of support for Tsitsi Dangarembga", New Writing, University of East Anglis, October 2020.
• Leo Robson, "Why Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the most remarkable authors the Booker Prize has ever celebrated", New Statesman, 13 November 2020.
• Mia Swart, "Tsitsi Dangarembga: Life in an 'ever-narrowing Zimbabwe'", AlJazeera, 16 November 2020.
• Catherine Taylor, "Tsitsi Dangarembga on her arrest, the Booker Prize and why she won't leave Zimbabwe: 'It's an ongoing trauma'", i, 16 November 2020.
• Troy Fielder, "UEA Live: An Emptiness That Hurts, In Conversation With Tsitsi Dangarembga" Archived 28 Silimin gɔli July 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Concrete, 27 February 2021.