Tsitsi Dangarembga

born in 1959 in Mutoko, Zimbabwe, is a writer, filmmaker, and cultural activist. She studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, psychology at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, and film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Her body of work includes the Tambudzai Trilogy [»Nervous Conditions«, 1988; »The Book of Not«, 2006; »This Mournable Body«, 2018], for which she was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2021. Body«, 2018], for which she was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2021. The jury stated that in her books Dangarembga »reveals social and moral conflicts that go far beyond regional references, thereby creating the stage for the discussion of globally relevant questions of justice.« In 2023, she published the essay collection »Black and Female: Essays« [2022]. »This Mournable Body« was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020. Dangarembga has received numerous honors, including the PEN Pinter Prize [2021], the Windham-Campbell Prize [2022], and the Spendlove Prize [2024]. She directed, among others, the film »Neria, Flame, Everyone’s Child« [1996] and the short film »Kare Kare Zvako – Mother’s Day«, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. Tsitsi Dangarembga is the founder of the ICAPA Trust and the International Film Festival for Women in Zimbabwe, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University, the University of East Anglia, and in 2025 at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Last Update: 2025

Der Preis der Freiheit 
Rowohlt
Hamburg, 1991 [Original: 1988]
[Ü: Ilija Trojanow]
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Aufbrechen
Orlanda Verlag
Berlin, 2019
[Ü: Ilija Trojanow]

Überleben
Orlanda Verlag
Berlin, 2021 [Original: 2018]
[Ü: Anette Grube]

Verleugnen
Orlanda Verlag
Berlin, 2022 [Original: 2006]
[Ü: Anette Grube]

Schwarz und Frau. Gedanken zur postkolonialen Gesellschaft 
Quadriga
Köln, 2023 [Original: 2022]
[Ü: Anette Grube]