List of Zimbabwean women writers

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This is a list of Zimbabwean women writers, including writers either from or associated with Zimbabwe.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tsitsi Dangarembga</span> Zimbabwean author and filmmaker

Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. She has won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform.

<i>The Chronicle</i> (Zimbabwe)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbara Makhalisa</span> Zimbabwean writer (born 1949)

Barbara Makhalisa, also known by her married name as Barbara Nkala, is a teacher, Zimbabwean writer, Ndebele translator, novelist, editor and publisher, one of the earliest female writers published in Zimbabwe. She is the author of several books written in Ndebele, as well as in English, of which some have been used as school textbooks. Barbara is married to Shadreck Nkala. They have three adult children and six grandchildren.

Irene Staunton is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, researcher and writer, who has worked in literature and the arts since the 1970s, both in the UK and Zimbabwe. She is co-founder and publisher of Weaver Press in Harare, having previously co-founded Baobab Books. Staunton is the editor of several notable anthologies covering oral history, short stories, and poetry, including Mothers of the Revolution: War Experiences of Thirty Zimbabwean Women (1990), Children in our Midst: Voices of Farmworker's Children (2000), Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe (2003), Women Writing Zimbabwe (2008), Writing Free (2011), and Writing Mystery & Mayhem (2015).

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References

  1. Dube, Doris (2011). Golide : gogo khokho-- lived, loved & left a legacy. Barbara Nkala. Harare, Zimbabwe: Radiant Pub. Co. ISBN   978-0-7974-4660-1. OCLC   781940002.
  2. Sibanda, Olivia Mahwaya (2020). Umkhosi wenhliziyo. Harare, Zimbabwe. ISBN   978-1-77925-359-0. OCLC   1264735172.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Ngwenya, Tsitsi Nomsa (2016). Izinyawo zayizolo. Harare. ISBN   978-0-7974-7241-9. OCLC   960043403.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)