Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Tsitsi Dangarembga （born 4 February 1959） is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker.
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.
In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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.
Dangarembga lived in England from ages of two to six while her parents pursued higher education.
There, she recalled that she and her brother began to speak English "as a matter of course and forgot most of the Shona we had learnt." 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.
She completed her A-Levels at Arundel School, an elite, predominantly white girls' school in the capital, Salisbu...