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  • Tsitsi Dangarembga on US St. Francis College Literary Prize 2019 shortlist.

    Tsitsi Dangarembga on US St. Francis College Literary Prize 2019 shortlist.

    Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body is on the shortlist for the St Francis College Literary Prize 2019 announced on August 15, 2019. The St Francis College Literary Prize is a biennial award recognising outstanding fiction by writers in the middle stages of their careers. The prize worth US$50,000 has been won by Aleksandar Hemon (2009),…

  • “This Mournable Body” completes Tsitsi Dangarembga trilogy.

    “This Mournable Body” completes Tsitsi Dangarembga trilogy.

    This Mournable Body is the third in the Tsitsi Dangarembga trilogy that started off with Nervous Conditions and was followed on by The Book of Not. The new novel is published by Graywolf Publishers. In 1988, a novel Nervous Conditions written by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga focusing on the story of a Shona family in…