Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of the essay collection Black and Female as well as three novels: Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not, and This Mournable Body, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. She is also a playwright and filmmaker and serves as director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust. The winner of the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression, she lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.