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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 [\u00bbNervous Conditions\u00ab, 1988; \u00bbThe Book of Not\u00ab, 2006; \u00bbThis Mournable Body\u00ab, 2018], for which she was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2021. Body\u00ab, 2018], for which she was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2021. The jury stated that in her books Dangarembga \u00bbreveals social and moral conflicts that go far beyond regional references, thereby creating the stage for the discussion of globally relevant questions of justice.\u00ab In 2023, she published the essay collection \u00bbBlack and Female: Essays\u00ab [2022]. \u00bbThis Mournable Body\u00ab 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 \u00bbNeria, Flame, Everyone\u2019s Child\u00ab [1996] and the short film \u00bbKare Kare Zvako \u2013 Mother’s Day\u00ab, 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.<\/p>\n\n

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