This Mournable Body
Booker Prize · 2020 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2020 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Tambudzai, first encountered in Dangarembga's classic Nervous Conditions, is now a young woman adrift in post-independence Zimbabwe. Psychologically fractured and economically precarious, she moves through various domestic and professional situations in Harare, confronting the devastating personal and systemic costs of colonialism's legacies.
About the Author
Tsitsi DangarembgaZimbabwean
Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker born in Mutoko, Zimbabwe, in 1959. She studied psychology at the University of Zimbabwe and film direction at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Her debut novel Nervous Conditions (1988), the first novel in English to be published by a Black Zimbabwean woman, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Read more →
