Zimbabwean Novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins 2021 PEN Pinter Prize

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Noted Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been declared as the winner of 2021 Pen Pinter Prize.
She has won for charting the development of Zimbabwe from a British colony to an autocratic and troubled free state through her writing career of 30-years.
Tsitsi Dangarembga will now deliver a keynote address at a ceremony hosted by British Library and English PEN in October 2021.
The PEN Pinter Prize is an annual literary prize established in 2009 in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter.
The prize is awarded to a writer resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth or the former Commonwealth, for their writing which shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination… to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.