Tsitsi Dangarembga

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Place of Birth Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Biography

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. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tsitsi Dangarembga, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

2011
2010
Ungochani

as Co-Director

2005
At the Water

as Director

1996
Everyone's Child

as Director

1994

Writer

2011
2005
At the Water

as Screenplay

1996
1991
Neria

as Story