Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangaermbga is the great lady in Zimbabwean letters. She became famous by publishing in 1988 her first novel "Nervous conditions". "The book we have been waiting for so long and which we should all read," said Doris Lessing about this first novel by the Zimbabwean novelist. Tsitsi Dangarembga is also a filmmaker and feminist and political activist.…

Together with her new novel "This Mournable Physique", the Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga is taking part this yr for the distinguished Booker Prize, the English equal of the Goncourt Prize. It's a highly effective novel that tells the story of the descent into postcolonial Zimbabwe. The announcement in July of the primary collection of works listed for the prize coincided with the writer accused by the police of getting inspired rebel and…