About the Author.....

About the Author…..

Tsitsi Dangarembg was born in 1959 in the small village of Mutoko, located in Rhodesia, modern Zimbabwe. When she turned two years old, her family moved to Britain where she received formal schooling until she turned six. In 1965, she returned to Britain where she began her childhood education at an American missionary school in Mutare. With a lust for knowledge, Tsitsi prided herself on the education she received in Britain and was egger to return to a British education. She was accepted to Camberage University, and from 1977 to 1980 she attended Camberage in pursuit of a medicine degree. However, in 1980 she returned home to Rhodesia after only three years of college due to home sickness and a sensed lacking of fulfillment in the medical field.

When she returned to Rhodesia, she attended the University of Harare majoring in physiology. While attending school she also held a job as a copywriter for two years introducing her to writing and publishing. During this time she also became very active in the theater community at the University. At the community theater her writing blossomed as she began to write plays, many were performed by the theater group. A few of her more accomplished works include; “The lost of the soil”, “The letter”, and “She no longer weeps”. She won the Swedish short story competition, SIDA with “The letter”.

From 1983-1987 she wrote and acting for the theater. After graduating in 1987, she began a new she career working as a teacher, however she found it hard to restrain her creativity in the school environment and returned to writing. When she turned 25, she wrote Nervous Conditions. When it was published it became the first novel written in English by a Black Zimbabwean Women. Five years after it was published, it won the African section of the Commonwealth writers prize. In 1991 she participated in the Faces of Africa festival and further continued her education at the Berlin, Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie college where she studied film direction. Since then, she has made numerous film titles included her most recent credit, “Everyone’s Child” which has been shown around the world at various festivals.