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Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Tsitsi Dangarembga 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.

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  1. ~61Named BBC 100 Women2020
  2. ~62Received the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association2021

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