Dangarembga, Tsitsi

LC control no.	nr 88007632
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR9390.9.D36
Personal name heading	Dangarembga, Tsitsi *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	דנגרמבגה, טסיטסי
Associated country	Zimbabwe
Birth date	1959
Place of birth	Mutoko (Zimbabwe)
Affiliation	University of Cambridge University of Zimbabwe
Profession or occupation	Novelists Motion picture producers and directors
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Her Nervous conditions, 1988: title page (Tsitsi Dangarembga) The popular arts and culture in the texture of the public sphere in Africa, c2010: title page (Tsitsi Dangarembga) p. facing t.p. (writer, dramatist, theatre and film producer; graduate of the Univ. of Zimbabwe and the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dangarembga, Tsitsi; fiction writer, motion picture producer/ director, screenwriter; born 1959 in Mutoko, Zimbabwe; studied medicine at Cambridge University (1977-1980); studied psychology at the University of Zimbabwe; became the first black Zimbabwean woman to publish a novel written in English, Nervous Conditions (1988); wrote the screenplay of the film Neria (1993); directed the film Everyone's Child (1996); filmed Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day 2004); her short story The Letter won a Swedish prize; Nervous conditions (won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for fiction (1989); published The Book of Not: A Sequel to Nervous Conditions (2006); was working on a third novel as part of Nervous conditions trilogy, provisionally titled Bira (2011))
Associated language	eng