Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga ( b. 1959 in Mutoko ) is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker.

Life

She was born in Mutoko in what was then Rhodesia in 1959. She spent part of her childhood in England, where she began her education. The completion of the training took place in a mission school in her hometown. She studied at the University of Cambridge, this study but broke off and went back to their homes.

She studied at the University of Harare psychology and also worked in a marketing company. At the University she became a member of the theater group. Here she wrote her first songs (The Lost of the Soil ) and was involved in another, eg Katshaa, Mavambo.

In 1985 she published a short story ( The Letter ). In 1987 he moved the piece She Does Not Weep in Harare. At 25, she had her first major success with the novel Nervous Conditions. She was thus the first black Zimbabwean who brought out a novel. She won the 1989 African Commonwealth Writers Prize. Dangarembga continued her education at the Berlin Film and Television Academy. Here she was, inter alia, a film for German television. Her film Everyone 's Child was shown at the Dublin Film Festival.

Works

• Nervous Conditions (novel, 1988)
• The Price of Freedom, Reinbek 1991
• Screenplay for the film Neria
• The beauty of conspiracy, 1994. Documentary
• Director in Everyone 's Child (1996 )