{"id":80908,"date":"2021-06-09T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=80908"},"modified":"2021-06-09T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:31:24","slug":"zimbabwean-novelist-tsitsi-dangarembga-bags-pen-pinter-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/zimbabwean-novelist-tsitsi-dangarembga-bags-pen-pinter-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga bags PEN Pinter prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80909\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80909 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-14.52.03.jpeg\" alt=\"PEN Pinter Prize\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-14.52.03.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-14.52.03-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-14.52.03-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-09-at-14.52.03-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga\u00a0 awarded the PEN Pinter prize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Praised for her \u201cability to capture and communicate vital truths even amidst times of upheaval\u201d, Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize. The writer \u00a0was arrested last year in Harare while protesting against corruption and charged with intention to incite public violence.<\/p>\n<p>The prize is given by free speech campaigners English PEN in memory of the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. It goes to a writer of\u00a0 \u201coutstanding literary merit\u201d who, as Pinter put it in his Nobel speech, shows a \u201cfierce intellectual determination&#8230; to define the real truth of our lives and our societies\u201d. Previous winners include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood and Linton Kwesi Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Dangarembga is the author of <em>Nervous Conditions<\/em>, which she wrote when she was 25, and which was described by Doris Lessing as one of the most important novels of the 20th century. The story of a village girl called Tambudzai, it was followed by <em>The Book of Not<\/em>, about Tambu\u2019s teenage years, and the Booker-shortlisted <em>This Mournable Body<\/em>, the third part of the trilogy, set in the postcolonial Zimbabwe of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful that my casting \u2013 in the words of Harold Pinter \u2013 an \u2018unflinching, unswerving gaze\u2019 upon my country and its society has resonated with many people across the globe and this year with the jury of the PEN Pinter prize,\u201d said Dangarembga. \u201cI believe that the positive reception of literary works like mine helps to prove that we can unite around that which is positively human.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Praised for her \u201cability to capture and communicate vital truths even amidst times of upheaval\u201d, Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize. The writer \u00a0was arrested last year in Harare while protesting against corruption and charged with intention to incite public violence. 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