Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize 2021

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• Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer who was arrested last year in Harare while protesting against corruption, has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize, praised for her “ability to capture and communicate vital truths even amidst times of upheaval”.
• Dangarembga was also shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for her work, This Mournable Body.
• Established in 2009, PEN Pinter prize is given in memory of Nobel-laureate playwright Harold Pinter.
• The annual award is given to an author who, the website specifies, must have “a significant body of plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of outstanding literary merit, written in English.