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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga in conversation with Ella Wakatama

January 27, 2022 by andrew

The UEA Literary Festival was founded in 1991 and this academic year we celebrate 30 years of live literature at the university. Now known as UEA Live, the Spring 2021 season featured this event with UEA’s inaugural International Professor of Creative Writing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, in conversation with Ella Wakatama. Visit the UEA Live website here: […]

Tsitsi Dangarembga awarded PEN Pinter Prize

June 13, 2021 by andrew

UEA’s inaugural International Chair in Creative Writing, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, has been named as the winner of the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize, which is awarded annually to a writer resident in Britain, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth or former Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an […]

Statement of support for Tsitsi Dangarembga

October 16, 2020 by andrew

‘Friends. Here is a principle. If you want your suffering to end, you have to act. Action comes from hope. This is the principle of faith and action.’ Statement by Tsitsi Dangarembga before her arrest on 31 July 2020 On June 24, 2020 the University of East Anglia appointed Tsitsi Dangarembga to the position of the […]

Tsitsi Dangarembga joins UEA as International Chair of Creative Writing

October 1, 2020 by andrew

UEA has appointed Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga as its inaugural International Chair of Creative Writing. She will deliver a programme of literary events, classes and workshops across the African continent and in the UK from 2021 to 2022. This new position is one of a number of initiatives timed to mark the fiftieth anniversary […]

CW50 brochure featuring Kazuo Ishiguro and Tsitsi Dangarembga

September 29, 2020 by andrew

The UEA Creative Writing programme is fifty years old. During the academic year 2020-21 we will celebrate the past, interrogate the present and spark ideas about the future as we mark five decades as a global leader in creative writing. With a Foreword by UEA alumnus, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, the brochure below describes some of […]

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