Tsitsi Dangarembga has been tapped to curate the 2019 Berlin Festival of African Writers. The event, themed “Transitioning from Migration,” will be held from 4-7 April 2019. It is presented by the literary agency InterKontinental, and will be attended by writers from across the continent. The inaugural event, themed “Writing in Migration” and curated by Olumide Popoola, […]
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Read an Excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s New Novel, This Mournable Body
Earlier this month, we brought news of the publication of This Mournable Body, the final novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy which includes the modern classic Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006). The 296-page novel is published by Graywolf Press, and comes with a blurb by Canadian novelist Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say […]
This Mournable Body, the Last Book in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy, is Here
This Mournable Body, the last book in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s trilogy which includes the modern classic Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006), is finally here. The 296-page novel is published by Graywolf Press, who released the first print run on 7 August. Canadian novelist Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have […]
A Shared Sea: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Zora Neale Hurston | By Salimah Valiani
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s 1988 novel, Nervous Conditions, the story of Tambudzai, other girl-children, and women of Babamukuru’s family in 1970s British Rhodesia, begins this way: I was not sorry when my brother died. Nor am I apologizing for my callousness, as you may define it, my lack of feeling. For it is not that at […]
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