Tsitsi Dangarembga speaks about the 2020 Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body, a searing novel about the obstacles faced by the women of Zimbabwe
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist. She is the author of Nervous Conditions, This Book of Not and This Mournable Body
Nervous Conditions won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Dangarembga is also a filmmaker, playwright, and the director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga’s searing novel about the obstacles faced by the women of Zimbabwe asks one question: where do lives go when all hope has departed?
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