LC control no. | nr 88007632 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR9390.9.D36 |
Personal name heading | Dangarembga, Tsitsi |
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 |