Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker best known for her critically acclaimed novel "Nervous Conditions," a landmark work in African literature.

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instanceOf activist
director
feminist
filmmaker
novelist
person
playwright
screenwriter
awardReceived Commonwealth Writers' Prize
surface form: Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression
PEN Pinter Prize
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
birthDate 1959-02-04
birthPlace Mutoko, Zimbabwe
countryOfCitizenship Zimbabwe
directed Everyone’s Child
Kare Kare Zvako (Mother’s Day)
educatedAt Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
University of Zimbabwe
ethnicGroup Shona people
familyName Tsitsi Dangarembga self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dangarembga
founded Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa
Nyerai Films
gender female
genre African literature
feminist literature
postcolonial literature
givenName Tsitsi
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement African feminism
postcolonialism
name Tsitsi Dangarembga self-link
nationality Zimbabwean
nominatedFor Booker Prize
notableFor critique of colonialism and patriarchy in Zimbabwe
portrayal of Zimbabwean women’s experiences
notableWork Nervous Conditions
The Book of Not
This Mournable Body
occupation director
filmmaker
novelist
playwright
screenwriter
residence Harare
surface form: Harare, Zimbabwe
workLocation Harare
surface form: Harare, Zimbabwe
wrote Nervous Conditions
She No Longer Weeps
The Book of Not
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories
This Mournable Body

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University of Zimbabwe hasNotableAlumni Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga name Tsitsi Dangarembga self-link
Tsitsi Dangarembga familyName Tsitsi Dangarembga self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Dangarembga