Tsitsi Dangarembga
Born in 1959
Fiction
Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean author, playwright, and filmmaker.
Born in 1959, she spent part of her childhood in England before returning to Zimbabwe.
Dangarembga studied medicine at Cambridge but left to pursue psychology at the University of Zimbabwe.
She began her career writing plays and short stories before publishing her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, at 25.
The book won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989.
Dangarembga later studied film in Berlin and has produced several documentaries and films.
Her work often explores themes of gender, colonialism, and Zimbabwean identity.
