Tsitsi Dangarembga

Place of birth: Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Fame for: Directing

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.