Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

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.

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Best known work

Neria
Neria
1991
Everyone's Child
Everyone's Child
1996
Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day
Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day
2005
Black in the Western World
Black in the Western World
1992
I Want a Wedding Dress
I Want a Wedding Dress
2011
The Beauty Conspiracy
The Beauty Conspiracy
1994
Nyami Nyami and the Evil Eggs
Nyami Nyami and the Evil Eggs
2011
Ungochani
Ungochani
2010
At the Water
At the Water
2005
High Hopes
High Hopes
2004

Filmography

  1. 2011

    I Want a Wedding Dress

    Director, Screenplay

  2. 2011

  3. 2010

    Ungochani

    Co-Director

  4. 2005

  5. 2005

  6. 2005

    At the Water

    Director, Screenplay

  7. 2004

    High Hopes

    Director

  8. 1996

    Everyone's Child

    Director, Writer

  9. 1994

  10. 1992

  11. 1991

    Neria

    Story

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