‘Zimbabwean Author, Tsitsi Dangarembga wins prestigious PEN Pinter Prize 2021’
Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has just been announced as winner of the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize 2021.
The prize is given by free speech campaigners English PEN in memory of the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. It goes to a writer of “outstanding literary merit” who, as Pinter put it in his Nobel speech, shows a “fierce intellectual determination to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”.
Previous winners include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Responding to the tweet about the announcement by Samila Sawlani Dangarembga tweeted, “More to be grateful to God and to all the people who love and support my work for.”
Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, 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. Wikipedia
