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Tsitsi Dangarembga was born on 4 February, 1959 in Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia, is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker. Discover Tsitsi Dangarembga's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Occupation Writer and filmmaker
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 4 February 1959
Birthday 4 February
Birthplace Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia
Nationality Zimbabwean

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1959

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker.

Tsitsi Dangarembga was born on 4 February 1959 in Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a small town where her parents taught at the nearby mission school.

Her mother, Susan Dangarembga, was the first black woman in Southern Rhodesia to obtain a bachelor's degree, and her father, Amon, would later become a school headmaster.

From the ages of two to six, Dangarembga lived in England, while her parents pursued higher education.

There, as she has recalled, she and her brother began to speak English "as a matter of course and forgot most of the Shona we had learnt."

1965

She returned to Rhodesia with her family in 1965, the year of the colony's Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

In Rhodesia, she reacquired Shona, but considered English, the language of her schooling, her first language.

In 1965, she moved with her family to Old Mutare, a Methodist mission near Umtali (now Mutare) where her father and mother took up respective positions as headmaster and teacher at Hartzell High School.

Dangarembga, who had begun her education in England, enrolled at Hartzell Primary School, before going to board at the Marymount Mission convent school.

1977

She completed her A-Levels at Arundel School, an elite, predominantly white girls' school in the capital, Salisbury (today Harare), and in 1977 went to the University of Cambridge to study medicine at Sidney Sussex College.

1980

There, she experienced racism and isolation and left after three years, returning in 1980 to Zimbabwe several months before the country's independence.

Dangarembga worked briefly as a teacher, before taking up studies in medicine and psychology at the University of Zimbabwe while working for two years as a copywriter at a marketing agency.

She joined the university drama club, and wrote and directed several of the plays the group performed.

She also became involved with the theatre group Zambuko, during which she participated in the production of two plays, Katshaa! and Mavambo.

She later recalled, "There were simply no plays with roles for black women, or at least we didn't have access to them at the time. The writers in Zimbabwe were basically men at the time. And so I really didn't see that the situation would be remedied unless some women sat down and wrote something, so that's what I did!"

1983

She wrote three plays during this period: Lost of the Soil (1983), She No Longer Weeps, and The Third One.

During these years, she also began reading works by African-American women writers and contemporary African literature, a shift from the English classics she had grown up reading.

1985

In 1985, Dangarembga's short story "The Letter" won second place in a writing competition arranged by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and was published in Sweden in the anthology Whispering Land.

She wrote it in 1985, but experienced difficulties getting it published; rejected by four Zimbabwean publishers, she eventually found a willing publisher in the London-based Women's Press.

1987

In 1987, her play She No Longer Weeps, which she wrote during her university years, was published in Harare.

1988

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.

She has won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize.

Her first novel, Nervous Conditions, was published in 1988 in the United Kingdom, and a year later in the United States.

1989

Nervous Conditions, the first novel written in English by a black woman from Zimbabwe, received domestic and international acclaim, and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa region) in 1989.

In 1989, Dangarembga went to Germany to study film direction at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin.

She produced a number of films while in Berlin, including a documentary aired on German television.

1991

She wrote the story for the film Neria, made in 1991, which became the highest-grossing film in Zimbabwean history.

1992

Her work is included in the 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

In 1992, she founded Nyerai Films, a production company based in Harare.

1996

Her 1996 film Everyone's Child, the first feature film directed by a black Zimbabwean woman, was shown internationally, including at the Dublin International Film Festival.

The film, shot on location in Harare and Domboshava, follows the tragic stories of four siblings after their parents die of AIDS.

2000

In 2000, Dangarembga moved back to Zimbabwe with her family, and continued her work with Nyerai Films.

2002

In 2002, she founded the International Images Film Festival.

2005

Her 2005 film Kare Kare Zvako won the Short Film Award and Golden Dhow at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, and the African Short Film Award at the Milan Film Festival.

2006

Her 2006 film Peretera Maneta received the UNESCO Children's and Human Rights Award and won the Zanzibar International Film Festival.

She is the executive director of the organization Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe and the founding director of the International Images Film Festival for Women of Harare (IIFF).

2010

As of 2010, she has also served on the board of the Zimbabwe College of Music for five years, including two years as chair.

2018

Nervous Conditions is considered one of the best African novels ever written, and was included on the BBC's 2018 list of top 100 books that have shaped the world.

2020

In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform.