![]() ![]() The first in English ever written by a black Zimbabwean woman, it won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989. ![]() At the age of twenty-five, she had her first taste of success with her novel Nervous Conditions. In 1987, she also published the play She Does Not Weep in Harare. In 1985, Dangarembga published a short story in Sweden called The Letter. This early writing experience gave her an avenue for expression: she wrote numerous plays, such as The Lost of the Soil, and then joined the theatre group Zambuko, and participated in the production of two plays, Katshaa and Mavambo. She also held down a two-year job as a copywriter at a marketing agency. She took up psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, of whose drama group she was a member. ![]() She later studied medicine at Cambridge University, but became homesick and returned home as Zimbabwe's black-majority rule began in 1980. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home, in the town of Mutare. ![]()
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