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‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library

The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project

The Guardian - UK

20 years after the publication of 'Purple Hibiscus,' a generation of African writers have followed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's footsteps

Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the North American publishing scene with her debut novel,“ Purple Hibiscus.”

The Conversation

Zimbabwe's rulers won't tolerate opposing voices – but its writers refuse to be silenced

The ruling elite in Zimbabwe has always tried to silence opposing political voices and erase histories it does not wish to have aired. Although “democratic” elections have been held since 1980, the country has become what the scholar Eldred Masunungure calls a state of “militarised, electoral authoritarianism”.

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Zimbabwe, she wrote: the women telling their country’s story for a new era

The door has been opened for a wave of writers confronting the legacy of postcolonialism through fiction – in a nation where speaking frankly puts you at risk of political persecution

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga has conviction for protest overturned

Harare high court quashes suspended sentence and fine handed down to Booker-longlisted writer last year

The Guardian - UK

Tsitsi Dangarembga had been found guilty of intent to incite public violence after organising anti-government protests.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe prize-winning novelist acquitted over anti-government protest

Acclaimed Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was acquitted on Monday by the country's High Court for staging an anti-government protest in 2020, for which she had initially received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine.

Reuters

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Zimbabwe opposition tweet case fuels poll crackdown fears

CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere convicted over tweet in 2021 as Zanu-PF accused of curbing free speech

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'Black and Female,' by Tsitsi Dangarembga

NONFICTION: Slim but incisive, this collection of graceful essays explores the struggle to be Black and female in a world of toxic patriarchy.

Tribune News Service

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne Carson and Mary Gaitskill honoured by Royal Society of Literature

New authors chosen for the RSL International Writers programme, championing ‘the power of literature to transcend borders’, are announced

The Guardian - UK

Tsitsi Dangarembga on Zimbabwe: ‘Every time we say it can’t get any worse, it does’

After her peaceful activism led to a conviction for promoting violence, Zimbabwe’s most distinguished novelist contemplates the possibility of a life in exile

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga found guilty of inciting violence

Novelist given suspended sentence after staging peaceful protest calling for political reform

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwe prize-winning novelist gets suspended sentence, fine over protest

Prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was found guilty of staging an anti-government protest and received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine, a court ruled on Thursday.

Reuters

Author Dangarembga found guilty in Zimbabwe rights protest

World-renowned author Tsitsi Dangarembga has been found guilty of promoting public violence in her home country of Zimbabwe for participating in an anti-government protest in 2020 that called for reforms

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The Guardian - UK

Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – a woman’s defiant fight to write

The Zimbabwean author celebrates the act of artistic creation while exploring the colonial, racial and gender biases she has faced

Reuters

Zimbabwean novelist Dangarembga to face trial in 2020 protest case

Prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga will face trial next week for staging an anti-government protest in 2020, a court ruled on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – a study in the power of words

The Zimbabwean writer and film-maker’s nonfiction debut weaves the personal and the political to arresting effect

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners

Dangarembga, American writer Margo Jefferson and British playwright Winsome Pinnock are among eight recipients of the $165,000 grants, as the award marks its 10th anniversary

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