Zimbabwean Novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga has emerged the winner of the Pen Pinter’s Prize. An award launched in memory of Harold Pinter, a Nobel Laureate who passed away in 2008.
Tsitsi Dangarembga wrote her first novel at 25 years of age, the book, Nervous Conditions, won the African Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, she is also credited for Neria, Zimbabwe’s most successful movie in 1993.
The Pen Pinter’s Prize is awarded every year to a resident UK, Commonwealth or Ireland writer that shows fierce intellectual determination to define the real truth of our lives and societies.
Her book This Mournable Body, a sequel to Nervous Conditions, was also nominated for the Booker Prize last year.
