Alice Kanterian

The author, director an activist Tsitsi Dangarembga lives and works in Zimbabwe, USA, and Germany. She attended Cambridge University and Sidney Sussex College before studying psychology at the University of Zimbabwe and screenwriting and directing at the German Television Academy Berlin. She held several university chairs and residencies in Europe, Africa and North America. Tsitsi Dangarembga co-founded the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA) Trust in 2009. ICAPA Trust facilitates, produces, and trains in the production of innovative products across a spectrum of narrative genres. In 2003, she founded the International Film Festival for Women in Harare, Zimbabwe, a festival that screens films featuring female protagonists and offers training programmes. Her film production company Nyerai Films was established in 1992. Dangarembga has been on the juries of Africa’s and Europe’s most prestigious film festivals. Currently, Dangarembga is a fellow at HIAS, and works on several of her film scripts and her forthcoming young adult dystopian speculative fiction. Her literary works include the collection of essays Black and Female, and the Tambudzai Trilogy comprising of Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and This Mournable Body, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. In 2021, she was awarded the Pen Award for Freedom of Expression, the Pen Pinter Prize and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2022, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.