Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker, born in 1959. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, published in 1988, was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, and in 2018 the BBC named it one of the top one hundred books that have shaped the world. She has also won other literary honours. She has won honours including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize, and her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020. In 2022 she was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence for displaying a placard asking for reform, and the conviction was later overturned.