齐齐·丹加伦加

Quotes

• “The writers in Zimbabwe were also [like the characters in the literature they produced] basically men at the time.”
• “The racism in England was not so institutionalized. Well, it was institutionalized, but then it was so efficiently realized that it didn’t need institutions, if you understand what I mean. In England, it was much easier not to be affected by it to that extent because my parents were students and people were somewhat respectful.”
• “I realize that creative women often do not fit easily into certain paradigms. I think to myself, Then where do they go? Where do they go? Because I feel that these women have so much to contribute, that they just see things in a different way. Every society has people like that and marginalizes them in some way. So it’s a very difficult situation.”
• “The skills I had learned for prose didn’t work in film. Those telling details, they’re completely different. Or the fact of these inner monologues in which you can write a whole book. Whereas prose is teasing out, film is stripping down, concentrating and compacting. I found I could not learn the one while doing the other. So it was a big struggle, actually. It took me years.”
• “I have seen enough to know that blame does not come in neatly packaged parcels.”
• “Stars below instead of above! I wanted to see them straight away. I prayed for a miracle, for the sun to set.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1959-02-04 ) 4 February 1959 (age 67) , Mutoko , Southern Rhodesia

Occupation

Writer and filmmaker

Nationality

Zimbabwean

Education

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ;, University of Zimbabwe ;, German Film and Television Academy Berlin ;, Humboldt University of Berlin

Notable works

Nervous Conditions (1988), The Book of Not (2006), This Mournable Body (2018)

Notable awards

Commonwealth Writers' Prize , Africa section, 1989;, PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression , 2021;, Windham-Campbell Literature Prize , 2022

Spouse

Olaf Koschke

Children

Tonderai, Chadamoyo and Masimba

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Image

Tsitsi Dangarembga FBM 2021.jpg

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