WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsitsi Dangarembga has received more than 282,295 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Tsitsi Dangarembga is the 5,565th most popular writer (down from 4,924th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Zimbabwe (down from 14th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Zimbabwean Writer.

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  • 280k

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  • 45.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Book of Not
Fiction, Identity (Psychology), Women
2006
Cuatro Mujeres Que AME, Las
2000
She no longer weeps
Drama
1987
Nervous Conditions
This is a book about the oppression of women by men.Men in a society have more rights than women and the women have to succumb to anything that men say.It also touches on religion and explains the roles of men and women.It also tells us about a young lady 'Nyasha" who left her home with her prents for England and went through a process called ASSIMILATION,which means that he suffered cultural schizophrenia.
1988
Nervous conditions
African fiction (English), Colonial influence, Fiction
1988
This mournable body
Boardinghouses, Ecotourism, Biology teachers
"Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be."--Amazon.com.
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tsitsi Dangarembga ranks 5,565 out of 7,302. Before her are Evgeny Sveshnikov, Zośka Vieras, Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Ğäliäsğar Kamal, Ravindra Prabhat, and Paula Yates. After her are Sándor Bródy, Stefan Andres, Olivier Rolin, Hendrik Marsman, Susanna Clarke, and Diomidis Kyriakos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Tsitsi Dangarembga ranks 329. Before her are Christa Luding-Rothenburger, Steve Strange, Brendan Perry, Joe Elliott, Kwak Jae-yong, and Paula Yates. After her are Susanna Clarke, Stanislaw Tillich, Paul McGann, Charlie Murphy, Domiziana Giordano, and Brilliant Dadashova.

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In Zimbabwe

Among people born in Zimbabwe, Tsitsi Dangarembga ranks 15 out of 45. Before her are Joshua Nkomo (1917), John Love (1924), Alexander McCall Smith (1948), Abel Muzorewa (1925), Paula Hawkins (1972), and Lobengula (1845). After her are Roy Welensky (1907), Phelekezela Mphoko (1940), Alex Callinicos (1950), Mario Frangoulis (1967), Kevin Ullyett (1972), and Dorothy Masuka (1935).

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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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