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Tsitsi Dangarembga on representation, feminism and Zimbabwean literature

Tsitsi Dangarembga on representation, feminism and Zimbabwean literature

FromThe Writing Life


Tsitsi Dangarembga on representation, feminism and Zimbabwean literature

FromThe Writing Life

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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Jul 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Tsitsi Dangarembga is a novelist, playwright and filmmaker who joins us on the pod today to discuss her groundbreaking work and its influence on readers. Tsitsi is the author of Nervous Conditions, which in 1988 was the first book to be published in English by a black woman from Zimbabwe and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and its sequels The Book of Not (2006) and This Mournable Body (2018). She was shortlisted in 2020 for the Booker Prize. Tsitsi lives in Harare and is the director of the Institute of Creatve Arts for Progress in Africa Trust.
Asking the questions is Molly-Rose Medhurst, student writer and activist who worked with us as an intern earlier in 2021. Take a look at an article she wrote: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/article/must-reads-for-lgbt-history-month/
Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.
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Music by Bennet Maples.
Released:
Jul 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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We’re a podcast for anyone who writes. Every week we talk to writers about their writing journeys and techniques, from early career debuts to self-publishers and narrative designers. We’ve featured Margaret Atwood, Jackie Kay, Sara Collins, Antti Tuomainen, Val McDermid, Sarah Perry, Elif Shafak and many more! The Writing Life is produced by the National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall in Norwich.