{"id":34649,"date":"2021-10-28T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/erzaehlungen-zur-freiheit-34649\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T14:14:36","slug":"tales-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/literature\/tales-of-freedom-34649\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of freedom\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga is widely regarded \u2013 both in her home country and far beyond \u2013 as one of the most influential voices from the African continent. Her books and films break the silence surrounding societal taboos and raise universal questions of justice. Winner of this year\u2019s German Book Trade Peace Prize, she will be visiting the Humboldt Forum for a special one-time only reading.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga is widely regarded \u2013 both in her home country and far beyond \u2013 as one of the most influential voices from the African continent. Her books and films break the silence surrounding societal taboos and raise universal questions of justice. In them, she describes the challenges faced in particular by African women who are caught between tradition and modernity and the constraints of ethnicity, age and social class. In recognition of her artistry and her bold political advocacy, Tsitsi Dangarembga was awarded the 2021 German Book Trade Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Her debut novel Nervous Conditions<\/em>, which was published in 1988, and declared winner for the African region in the prestigious Commonwealth Book Prize in 1989, lays the foundation of a trilogy centred around Tambudzai, an adolescent young woman, and her struggle to find self-determination and her place as a woman in post-colonial Zimbabwe. A full three decades would pass before Tsitsi Dangarembga completed the trilogy: her second novel The Book of Not<\/em> appeared in 2006, and despite all the obstacles a female African author is forced to face, she succeeded in completing her trilogy in 2018 with This Mournable Body.<\/em><\/p>\n

Besides her work as an author, Tsitsi Dangarembga also uses her films to challenge current societal and political structures. She is also committed to promoting culture, which she sees as the key to a more liberal society. In her home country, her primary involvement is in the struggle for the democratisation of state and society, for which she was arrested last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread more<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread less<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/read-mode>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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