Tsitsi Dangarembga

1959–

Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and film-maker. Born in Mutoko, she spent part of her early childhood in England, studied medicine at Cambridge and psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, and later trained in film direction in Berlin. Her first novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), won the Africa region of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Its sequels are The Book of Not (2006) and This Mournable Body (2018). She directed the feature film Everyone’s Child (1996). In 2021 she received the PEN Pinter Prize and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s life

Works

• This Mournable Body (2018)

Prizes

• This Mournable Body — The Booker Prize 2020: Shortlist, Longlist