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Tsitsi Dangarembga

1959 - Today

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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. She has won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2024). Tsitsi Dangarembga is the 5,257th most popular writer (up from 5,565th in 2024), the 18th most popular biography from Zimbabwe (down from 15th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Zimbabwean Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tsitsi Dangarembga ranks 5,257 out of 7,302. Before her are Abdulla Aliş, Carlos Monsiváis, Dany Laferrière, Jan van Beers, Richard Russo, and Albert Salvadó. After her are Bruno Heller, Georgy Ivanov, Alan Bennett, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Théodore Aubanel, and Dicuil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Tsitsi Dangarembga ranks 307. Before her are Roland Grapow, Thomas Allofs, Timoleón Jiménez, Jeanette Winterson, Rineke Dijkstra, and Craig Armstrong. After her are Anne Smith, Fyodor Cherenkov, Hiroshi Soejima, Ulrike Richter, Lone Scherfig, and Ali Ahmeti.

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In Zimbabwe

Among people born in Zimbabwe, Tsitsi Dangarembga ranks 18 out of 45. Before her are Alexander McCall Smith (1948), Liz Chase (1950), John Love (1924), Abel Muzorewa (1925), Ismail ibn Musa Menk (1975), and Paula Hawkins (1972). After her are Lobengula (1845), Phelekezela Mphoko (1940), Mario Frangoulis (1967), Kevin Ullyett (1972), Roy Welensky (1907), and Sibusiso Moyo (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Zimbabwe

Among writers born in Zimbabwe, Tsitsi Dangarembga ranks 3. Before her are Alexander McCall Smith (1948), and Paula Hawkins (1972). After her are Chenjerai Hove (1956), Yvonne Vera (1964), NoViolet Bulawayo (1981), and Debora Patta (1964).

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